"Cracked Snare"
My favorite subjects to photograph are decrepit, derelict, abandoned places. Urban decay compels me to think of the impermanence and fragility of all of our material possessions and of life itself. There is beauty to behold in the erosion of things that were once so structured.
The name, “Cracked Snare,” comes from the seemingly nonsensical words graffitied next to the exposed rotor of the broken down vehicle. I superimposed a photograph of a wall with cracking paint over the photo of the car to illustrate the beauty of decay further. Beyond that, the unintelligible phrase made me think…a snare is meant to keep a rhythm, a steady predictable rhythm like the beating of a heart. But what happens if the snare begins to fall apart? If the hoop of the snare, its shell, its structure, cracks? The rhythm may stay the same, but the sound distorts more and more until it reaches a beautiful, cacophonous end.
*Canvas available in: 8x12; 10x15; 11x17; 16x24; 20x30; 24x36; 30x45
*Metallic available in: 7x5; 8x12; 12x18; 16x24
My favorite subjects to photograph are decrepit, derelict, abandoned places. Urban decay compels me to think of the impermanence and fragility of all of our material possessions and of life itself. There is beauty to behold in the erosion of things that were once so structured.
The name, “Cracked Snare,” comes from the seemingly nonsensical words graffitied next to the exposed rotor of the broken down vehicle. I superimposed a photograph of a wall with cracking paint over the photo of the car to illustrate the beauty of decay further. Beyond that, the unintelligible phrase made me think…a snare is meant to keep a rhythm, a steady predictable rhythm like the beating of a heart. But what happens if the snare begins to fall apart? If the hoop of the snare, its shell, its structure, cracks? The rhythm may stay the same, but the sound distorts more and more until it reaches a beautiful, cacophonous end.
*Canvas available in: 8x12; 10x15; 11x17; 16x24; 20x30; 24x36; 30x45
*Metallic available in: 7x5; 8x12; 12x18; 16x24
My favorite subjects to photograph are decrepit, derelict, abandoned places. Urban decay compels me to think of the impermanence and fragility of all of our material possessions and of life itself. There is beauty to behold in the erosion of things that were once so structured.
The name, “Cracked Snare,” comes from the seemingly nonsensical words graffitied next to the exposed rotor of the broken down vehicle. I superimposed a photograph of a wall with cracking paint over the photo of the car to illustrate the beauty of decay further. Beyond that, the unintelligible phrase made me think…a snare is meant to keep a rhythm, a steady predictable rhythm like the beating of a heart. But what happens if the snare begins to fall apart? If the hoop of the snare, its shell, its structure, cracks? The rhythm may stay the same, but the sound distorts more and more until it reaches a beautiful, cacophonous end.
*Canvas available in: 8x12; 10x15; 11x17; 16x24; 20x30; 24x36; 30x45
*Metallic available in: 7x5; 8x12; 12x18; 16x24