Polygonal Cities Index | Richard Horvath Artworks
Polygonal City 22
2011
Inkjet on watercolour paper
75 x 50 cms
The cement sheet shack you see here is modelled after a modest 1960's style beach house once common to the area where I live. I like the architectural modernist overtones exemplified by it's boxiness and the radically raking roof. The house it is modelled on is not dwarfed by a high tension electricity pylon, that has been added because I find these structures are visually striking despite being a blight on the landscape.
The sodium lamp type lighting suggests a freeway or busy main road in front of this house. It completes the picture of desolation and it is the type of place I would drive past and wonder who lives there and what sort of lives they lead. The man has a grungy industrial look that contrasts with the immaculate duco of the Ford Mustang convertible, a car associated these days with the cashed up professional rather than the factory worker. Nonetheless the aesthetic beauty of this industrial age icon is compelling and presents a piquant contrast to the bleakly utilitarian landscape.
The sodium lamp type lighting suggests a freeway or busy main road in front of this house. It completes the picture of desolation and it is the type of place I would drive past and wonder who lives there and what sort of lives they lead. The man has a grungy industrial look that contrasts with the immaculate duco of the Ford Mustang convertible, a car associated these days with the cashed up professional rather than the factory worker. Nonetheless the aesthetic beauty of this industrial age icon is compelling and presents a piquant contrast to the bleakly utilitarian landscape.