Stairs and Shadows - Daniel Perez and Jon Cedric Roxas

MAS110 Photo Essay
Shadows and Stairs
Daniel Perez and Jon Cedric Roxas

Music: Neurowaxx ft. Stateshirt, The Starry Tides (2009)
“This is on the stairs”
CC License: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)
http://ccmixter.org/files/Neurowaxx/21948

Stairs are more than just mundane objects; they are an important part of our everyday lives. The purpose of this photo essay is to suggest the extent to which such mundane objects heavily impact upon our day-to-day lives. The staircase was utilized as a metaphor for the mundane people, objects and events which hold our lives together. This encourages an audience to appreciate the mundane objects within their lives which benefit their functioning within society. Shadows represent the changing nature of our lives however the single staircase remained constant. By utilizing just one set of stairs in 50 different mediums, an illusion was created that one object can be manipulated into many different scenarios. This portrays the polymorphic concept that one mundane object can help our existence in many different ways. The music utilized has a constant rhythm, evoking an image of one using a staircase. The bass guitar has a low pitch which gives weight to the shadows and emphasizes its darkness. Thus, it can be suggested through assistance of sound, that darkness surrounding our everyday lives does not alter the fundamental nature of the everyday mundane objects. Therefore, despite the difficult situations in which we are presented daily, objects which we often overlook are the ones which we rely upon the most.