Second montage and new working title

After performing a day shoot in Lincoln the other day, I have gathered enough material to create the second montage in the series now titled 'The Castles of the Architects'.

Drawing on the Medieval elements of Lincoln, the buildings focused on were the white with criss-crossing dark beams, and the remnants of castle walls, turrets and gates.

Currently, I have created a prototype for this montage (though the buildings have been cut around roughly).

Georgian arcitecture - montage concept [inspired by 'Archisculptures'

This project presents a chosen architectural style, in this case Georgian, as a collage/photo mural or ‘graphical assemblage’.

Within this project, a collection of architectural features and buildings of a chosen period are reborn as a larger, new structure or collage, emphasising the historical elements.

 

This project began as a colour montage, which was not symmetrical. However, it was decided that since

regularity and symmetry are the central ideals to Georgian architecture, that this should be reflected in the montage. Mirroring half of the montage was a quick technique in creating symmetry, but it also resulted in some of the montages appearing like 'manor houses', and so these separate buildings are 'born again' as part of a larger structure.

Presenting the collage in monochrome focuses the viewer’s attention on the architectural and geometrical aspects of the composition, adding cohesion to the collage. 

This concept was inspired by Beomsik Won's 'Archisculptures' (shown previously in this blog) and Paul Citroen's 'Metropolis'.

Note: The montages are still incomplete, for example, the buildings have been roughly cut out for the purposes of experimenting with the concept.

An example of Beomsik Won's 'Archisculptures'

The original montage

The first of the mirrored montages (made from half of the original)

The second of the mirrored montages (made from the other half of the original)

New montage made with the intention of mirroring it.