Stages 1980
This work originated, more or less, as the result of working at a school of architecture. While photographing architectural models I became intrigued by the way things are made to appear believable through the collaboration of construction and rendering i.e. the model and its photographic image. As is the case with all illusions, the success depends upon the perspective of the viewer. The photographs I’ve created are meant to amplify and reveal the illusion simultaneously. The resulting paradox is intended to encourage the viewer to consider the extent to which the world is configured to create illusion and photography’s complicity in the ongoing configuration of the world as image. RB
