None of these images is really about the actual structures that caused them, but they isolate some element of the appearance of those structures.

1. This tangle of tensioned wires against a skylight was the functional anchor point for a sculpture that suspended a large number of rocks just off the ground in the Art Gallery of NSW. To me it was much more interesting than the main focus of the sculpture.
2. This view of part of an office building seen between parts of two others tries to look orderly and symmetrical, but it’s not. It’s really a syncopated rhythmic off-beat design, stolen from the street.
3. I know these are only umbrellas from an outdoor restaurant, but they have a mysterious North African feel to me. They are forgotten ancient pyramids thrusting up from the desert sand; they are a caravan of nomadic traders in their flowing desert robes, they are beautiful arab women concealed behind their veils… that sort of thing.
4. The façade of this Sydney terrace house is just a selected composition of shapes and colours – the sort of thing that an open eye sees everywhere. It was the faded pastel colours hinting at the very different appearance this façade once had that appealed to me.