Polygonal City 2

The Geelong foreshore has a pleasing art deco quality that sits quite well with its attraction as a picnic area and bathing place overlooking Corio Bay. This print came about through the questionable strategy of seeking a subject appropriate to enter in a print prize hosted by the city's gallery. Because of a struggle with the subject matter, which initially felt interesting but ultimately became a laborious effort to invest with meaning, it was necessary to resort to a strategy to short circuit the impasse.

This is why there is such a dramatic shift from the carefully modelled foreground to the abstracted background which was made by inserting the reference photo into the scene after applying a motion blur to it and inverting the colour palette. The result is the severance between the cool aqua and porcelain tones of the pool and surrounding foreground landscape with the radio-actively toned far distance. Only the reverberations of the of concentric circles emanating compositionally from the fountain at the centre to the distant shoreline define the logical perspective one expects to find.