Friday, October 12, 2012

Surfaces and Decay - Tamara and Nali


By Tamara Grennan and Nali Lishomwa
Music Credits
Pekkanini (2009) "Soft Shuffle Theremin"
Creative Commons Licence: attribution, non-comercial and sharealike


Our chosen theme was surfaces with our sub-theme being decayed. We choose surfaces as our theme as it encompasses a wide range of things such as roads, signs and walls. Our subtheme decay was chosen because we wanted to reflect how theses surfaces over time decay and are only very rarely restored to their original condition. In todays society almost everything around us is man made; each and every day we pass surfaces, which have decayed without giving them another thought paying barely any attention to them. Our music was chosen to convey our theme through the slow melody and down beat tempo; we believed this best conveyed the decaying surfaces.

Our photographs were taken around the suburbs in which we both live; north Ryde and Penrith. The photographs were taken in areas of high pedestrian and traffic activity; places which people pass in their daily lives. In everyday hundreds of people pass these surfaces either on foot or in motor vehicles without even a second thought of the how they have gotten this way or why no one has restored them. 

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