Taxonomy is a series of photo-constructs that takes urban artifacts and detaches them from their context through a digital kaleidoscopic process. This process highlights and distinguishes their individual qualities and enables each artifact to be classified as a typology, much like the science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
The work largely deals with buildings under construction. The photo-constructs capture this period that is often equally elaborate and beautiful as the final building itself. The work celebrates the vibrant temporary apparatus of construction work; scaffolding, cranes, lifts, screening and sets these against the robust and permanent concrete or steel superstructures of the emerging architecture.
Through the mechanism of the photo-construct entirely new spaces and forms are created. These are often irrational since they contain multiple and overlapping vanishing points which is otherwise impossible to create in reality. Hovering somewhere between fantasy and reality the photo-constructs are also inspired by Medieval Islamic architecture that explored abstracted expressions of the divine and Christian ideas of the eternal heavenly city.
Other urban artefacts are included in the series such as industrial buildings. Through the photo-construct process their more elegant, and sometimes under appreciated, aspects are distinguished for the attention of the viewer.