The Isläanders series depicts a number of abstracted forms taken from real world environments. The images are made using photographs, each piece uses a variety of layered elements from a single initial image. The process highlights often unintended aspects, prominences are then distinguished further using hand inked outlines. Urban and gritty, the original material comes from utopic post war social housing projects and defunct industries. A ghostly past at odds with the lost futures of modernism and declining industry, as a subject of focus. Resembling the hallucinations of a rebellious cartographer, the images resemble maps of marsh or fjords, as if the urban has given way to a natural metamorphosis. Each presenting at a 1:1 scale, the surface of a real point in time and place. A pamphlet was created alongside the exhibition showcasing the full series, a digital version of this is available by clicking the images below. More images of the full series available on Saatchi Art here.
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