26 Faces

Part One - Letter Forms

Shot these in one morning in the garden - assisted by the brilliant light of the low autumn sun. I had a hunch that setting quite tight boundaries might concentrate the mind here and produce more rapid results. I had initially considered trying to extrapolate all letter forms from one single object; for example, a car. But the notion of using the garden began to offer an organic unity in terms of content and palette that was very appealing.

I think the context successfully binds the letter forms into a coherent alphabet.

Really had to search creatively at times and utilise shadows and cropped images. Seem to work well displayed as a grid where the letter forms are pretty much of the correct height in relation to one another.


Part Two - Faces

Electrical equipment provided a rich vein of images. I like the way in which each has definite characteristics. It makes you consider just what it is about the arrangement of features that produces a particular demeanour.

There must be something compelling about this idea - the whole family got involved.