Sample - the latest colours for domestic environments, 2010.
The context of the project is home decoration and its associations with updating and freshening the domestic environment. Painting a wall in an alluring new colour gives a uniform finish, covering up various traces that might be viewed as undesirable. With time, these traces become visible and evident: this is the central focus of the project.
Sections of wall spaces in various domestic living quarters were photographed using a rigorously consistent technical approach. The photographs show the deterioration of the painted surfaces and the increasing visibility of what was previously hidden. The titles appended to the final images have been selected from commercial paint catalogues, but are not the names of the colours in the photographs (these are unknown).
Jonathan graduated from University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich, in 2009 with a BA (Hons) Photography Degree. During his studies he spent a considerable amount of time researching and photographing interiors, concentrating on themes such as aesthetics of absence, trace, visually encouraging the viewer to fill absent spaces and identity revealed through narratives expressed in an environment.
These themes have led to the development and outcome of the current exhibition work on display.
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