If These Walls Could Speak

Not to romanticise the depredation and squalor that is caused by torn advertisements plastered all around, but I have obsessed about the actual art that is perhaps hidden on the vandalised and defaced inner city walls. As most are familiar with these artefacts that range from truck hire slips to penis enlargement pamphlets, , the remaining walls beg for one to ask about certain visual properties which define what we might call aesthetics of rusty canvases as sculptured by time. These images are close-ups, my intense study of isolated rusted zinc surfaces that capture nature's corrosive aspects in most intimate detail. The originality of the works is subjective to a large extent, in that the corrosion, accidental paintings, collages and sculptured surfaces become the ‘art’ I purposed to capture into this photo-essay. A larger body of photographs will be posted over the course of the experiment with urban debris and derelict canvases, and I hope the works inspire new ways of seeing aspects of form and texture which are seldom observed.