Theme: Urban structures
Sub theme: Decay
“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as
growth.” – Henry Miller
In my photo essay, I sought to express the idea of everyday
aesthetics in the subtle beauty of decaying buildings. The photos in my presentation
attempt to shed light on just how close to new buildings these decaying, older
structures are.
It is easy to forget that the decrepit ruins of abandoned
buildings we see every day were once
inhabited – In a way, all occupied buildings are future ruins. The beauty of
the decay on these old buildings tells the history of the area and the people
who once occupied them and preserves the memories and stories that once were.
The startling thing about all of these dwellings is that
they are amazingly close to currently occupied buildings, the abandoned,
graffiti’d factories in lower Brooklyn are less than 100 metres from apartment
buildings in which people live.
In creating the photo montage, the main thing that I wanted
to display is the effect that time has on these buildings. Through creating the
montage it became pretty apparent just how many of these uninhabited buildings
there are around the place and it strung a chord with me that these buildings
were created by people, just as we write stories or create music. The
melancholy of it all ties in well with the Bluegrass influenced acoustic song
that I’ve embedded into the video – it too tells a transformative story and
really resonates the needlessness of it all.
"Chain Smoke Days" by Mr. and Mrs. Smith is licensed under Attribution, Share-alike and Non-commercial Creative Commons licenses
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