An Introduction to my Capstone
I welcome, with an artist statement… My work investigates the emotional and atmospheric language of architecture. Through photography, video, and multi-media processes, I explore how built environments shape perception, memory, and behavior. I am particularly interested in the difference in comprehension between spaces we inhabit daily and those that are spatially and experientially removed from our everyday lives. In my photographic practice, I often remove the human figure from the frame. By doing so, I allow structures, surfaces, and light to carry emotion independently. I am drawn to architecture not as static form, but as an active presence – something that regulates us quietly and persistently. We are inseparable from the environments that shape us, yet we rarely step outside of them long enough to recognize their influence. When spatially removed from a place, like photographing London rather than Lo...