Deconstruction Zone
A few blocks from my house the old Berkeley Deptartment of Health Building is being slowly demolished to make room for a BP funded Green Energy Institute. Take that as you will.
The slow, I-Beam by I-beam demolition has unroled over a month or two and has been fascinating to watch. There’s constantly a few people with cameras milling about it. Personally I’ve made 2 trips.
All the images are fun to look at but I don’t pretend to be an expert photographer, so I’m using them more as source and reference materials for digital collages. Most of these are very quick sketches worked up the last few nights in an hour or less, working out some ideas.
More below the jump:
As experiments, they show me new areas I haven’t explored before, and what improvements I’d have to make to be satisfied with them.
-JD
July 2, 2010 at 12:51 pm
i LOVE how the chosen subject is parallel to your working methods! and i love that the photos of the building in demolition actually resemble one of your finished safety pin paintings. AYUND i love the look of the reassembled photos. great stuff!
July 6, 2010 at 3:07 pm
I think this is exciting! i look forward to a finished piece.
July 14, 2010 at 12:13 pm
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