The following suite of drawings presents a series of observations captured on cameraphone. The images were then translated into detailed pen & ink drawings, in an intense process of dotting, cross-hatching and repetition. 
Each "snapshot" celebrates a seemingly unremarkable urban manifestation that held poetic resonance on some level, as it was encountered.  Some of the images are entirely observational, whilst others introduce an imaginary element.

 

Operating on a symbolic level, each drawing seeks to create a sensory connection with periphery phenomena of the everyday. Reflecting a very human desire to find deeper meaning within the natural and material world around us.

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"...to read the city is to read an urbanized self, to know the city from within. Once we lose a transcendental signifier, the totalizing process is called into question and the city turns into a place of mystery: chance and the unexpected dominate, a romantic sense of the uncanny becomes exaggerated, and the city takes on the meaning of pure text, to be created by each individual and read."

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R. Lehan, The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Culture History, 1998