攝影 / 通過建築幾何空間探索社會現象
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His name is Collin Pollard and he isa visual artist working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His photographic as well as sculptural work is a commentary on how we think and interact with our surroundings. Most of his pieces deal with industrial spaces, where he hopes to highlight the strength that is often associated with concrete, cement or any architectural structure really.Texture, line, shape and color all play a crucial role in how he goes about editing and composing images. As he goes on daily walks around different neighborhoods in the city, he always tends to ask myself similar types of questions. Why do they, as a society, prescribe certain colors to be masculine or feminine? And to take that question a step further, why are 「feminine」 colors linked to being more queer than others? This idea that is so ingrained in contemporary culture that boys should like blue and girls should like pink. he uses a softer, more pastel palette to highlight the flaw in societal norms of what is considered masculine and feminine. To strip down the complexity of this notion relates directly to how he approaches his creative practice. Less is more.
Collin利用建築物的幾何構造之美，呈現給觀者一種極具衝擊力的色彩感覺，賦予日常生活中的乏味事物不同的意義。如今每個人都專註於他們的手機，無論是通過社交媒體還是電視廣告，人們快速瀏覽圖片，當他們點進下一張圖像時，其關注的時間還不到一秒鐘。設計師試圖從概念層面改變這一現象，他通過利用建築的空間幾何感迫使觀眾不得不在圖像上停留更長時間。 他希望觀眾問自己這樣的問題：「這是一個真實存在的場所嗎，還是在後期製作中捏造的？」這個過程也是作為一個藝術家探索與思考性別規範，以及顏色的表達。攝影師認為顏色本身並不具有男性化或女性化或同性戀類的特徵，這種觀念是在社會和外部的影響下形成的。
He uses depth as a metaphor for the shallowness we often run into as we conduct our day to day lives. Everyone is glued to their phone, saturated by images. Each image being thrown at us, whether that be through social media or advertisements on television, gets less than a second of our attention until we are onto the next. This level of shallowness, on a conceptual level, is key to understanding how he uses composition and depth to his advantage. He plays with the depth of the architectural space as a way of forcing the viewer to look twice at the image. His hopes are the viewer initially has to ask themselves the question, 「Is this a real location or just just fabricated in post production?」 This process is a way for me as an artist to explore ideas associated with gender norms, queerness and to communicate my opinion that colors are not inherently masculine or feminine or queer, this notion came from societal and outside influences.
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