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[wpcol_2third id=”” class=”” style=””][slideshow id=49][/wpcol_2third] [wpcol_1third_end id=”” class=”” style=””]During my residency at ComPeung I conducted two photographic projects; ‘School of Athens’ and ‘The Sirens’, respectively they looked to document sites of ‘inverse ruins’ and billboards that had been left unadorned. These collections look to explore the relationships between architecture, economics and the landscape within Thai culture. Consciously I drew relations between modern Thailand and the historical Greek basis of Western culture, linking the two countries economically through the reverence of ruins and by steeping the monolithic silver billboard in references to classical Greek mythology and literature. A parallel project will be conducted in Greece aiming to dispel the separation of East and West through a comparative study.
The photographic works were supported by an additional series of geometric architectural drawings and a small video work ‘I could never skip stones’, was made to demonstrate how the alteration of the landscape for economic gain could produce sites oddly reminiscent of 1960’s American ‘Land Art’.
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