Subway Blues Photography Using repetitive hand embroidery

Using repetitive hand embroidery

Starting from a single piece

He is surrounded by a built environment of ecological terror he cannot relate to due to the dehumanisation of industrial design

existing instead between solidity and pliability

and quietly persists beneath the surface

Subway Blues Photography Using repetitive hand embroideryMy way of working is instinctive and reactive. Sometimes something catches my eye and I have a split second to lift the camera, power it on, shoot from the hip and hope Ive caught it. Subway Blues was one of those moments, late at night on the New York subway. A man in a turquoise suit with a glowing yellow hat moved through the platform like a ghost. The blur, the colour, the contrast, it all came together in an instant, suggesting a figure caught