Tony Bowen
Untitled: Norfolk
THRESHOLD is an ongoing photographic project: Responding primarily to thoughts about tensions between our private and public existences, these pieces document domestic windows in dense urban spaces – physical planes which connect the two. These liminal surfaces act as visual thresholds – sites of collision between anonymity and exposure. Balancing opposing needs for light and privacy, their uniformity is unremarkable by day, punctuated only occasionally by small signs of interior lives. Transformed by nightfall they become quiet beacons, emitting a soft glow charged with warmth, intrigue and ambiguity. Human presence is strangely signified by fields of saturated colour, elusive shadow and inexplicit form, hinting at what might lie beyond the veil. This work may prompt a broader meditation on the language and complexities of disclosure and concealment. It may also bring to mind the sublime allure of the mystery, the enigma and the intangible.
Medium: Photographic print (archival)
Size: 20cm x 25cm (40x40cm framed)
Year: 2022
Untitled: Norfolk
THRESHOLD is an ongoing photographic project: Responding primarily to thoughts about tensions between our private and public existences, these pieces document domestic windows in dense urban spaces – physical planes which connect the two. These liminal surfaces act as visual thresholds – sites of collision between anonymity and exposure. Balancing opposing needs for light and privacy, their uniformity is unremarkable by day, punctuated only occasionally by small signs of interior lives. Transformed by nightfall they become quiet beacons, emitting a soft glow charged with warmth, intrigue and ambiguity. Human presence is strangely signified by fields of saturated colour, elusive shadow and inexplicit form, hinting at what might lie beyond the veil. This work may prompt a broader meditation on the language and complexities of disclosure and concealment. It may also bring to mind the sublime allure of the mystery, the enigma and the intangible.
Medium: Photographic print (archival)
Size: 20cm x 25cm (40x40cm framed)
Year: 2022
Untitled: Norfolk
THRESHOLD is an ongoing photographic project: Responding primarily to thoughts about tensions between our private and public existences, these pieces document domestic windows in dense urban spaces – physical planes which connect the two. These liminal surfaces act as visual thresholds – sites of collision between anonymity and exposure. Balancing opposing needs for light and privacy, their uniformity is unremarkable by day, punctuated only occasionally by small signs of interior lives. Transformed by nightfall they become quiet beacons, emitting a soft glow charged with warmth, intrigue and ambiguity. Human presence is strangely signified by fields of saturated colour, elusive shadow and inexplicit form, hinting at what might lie beyond the veil. This work may prompt a broader meditation on the language and complexities of disclosure and concealment. It may also bring to mind the sublime allure of the mystery, the enigma and the intangible.
Medium: Photographic print (archival)
Size: 20cm x 25cm (40x40cm framed)
Year: 2022