Color Plane Abstract Architecture Series

This series began with the piece I've called "OSHA Violation No. 1", as I snapped the reference picture of a scissor lift in front of a staircase at my day job as a safety manager. I've also just simply called it "Lines". It is currently on display at AfroSpace in Charlotte, NC, along with several other art pieces of mine. Over a year ago I made this piece and sketched out several others to go with it as a series. However, I didn't find much joy in the process of working with tape and creating straight lines, so I just left the incomplete series sitting in my art studio for a year. Over the past month or so I've suddenly found inspiration to finish those pieces. They were insanely tedious to create, and I didn't love the process, but I have a start of 4 new pieces in my color plane abstract architecture series to share with you.

"Free Ad Space", I made using a reference picture of Charlotte's Wells Fargo Building before its recent change where they have marred my beautiful skyline with their unsightly logo.

The second piece in the series was made from a reference picture I took at my partner's old condominium. I call it "Liminalminium". The halls of such large, shared living spaces have always given me an uncomfortable feeling... I'm not sure if it's the artificiality of the LED lights, the awkwardness of living communally yet separately, or the absurdity of it taking 5 minutes to get "home" after you reach your driveway. It's likely something else entirely. Do tell me if you know.

"Breaking News", was made from my reference picture of a radio tower in South End, Charlotte, NC. I've really been appreciating the beauty of simple, intersecting lines and their various implications in art.

The fourth and most tedious, "Third Place", depicts a bench, a parking garage, and a lone streetlight, creating an aesthetic but empty and even eerie atmosphere, suggesting the vibe of the shells that used to be "third spaces" in communities, now boarded up and inaccessible.

The contrast of the happy, upbeat 80s-esque color palette paired with the current realities of living in the 21st century, coping only by ignoring or forgetting harsh realities with which we are constantly faced, creates themes of duality and nuance, for which I am a strong advocate.