drei #21 by Christopher Young
Sometimes an artist's words are enough. I give you aspiring Hot Shot Christopher Young.
This image is part of an ongoing series titled drei (German: 'three') that addresses specific aspects of both my personal life & creative practice––people, place and props. It consciously develops ideas of context, implied narrative and space as components in the communication of associated concepts. These locations are loaded with long lost narratives and I make my images after the direct emotive connection has been severed. Often deserted, they are going through a process of decay, destruction and regeneration. By contrasting them in exhibition context with my portraiture and still-life work - often in diptych or triptych form - I hope to re-invent a deeply personal but at the same time completely fictional history. Any discovery is tainted by the subjective experience of the viewer projecting their own narratives into a scene. They are then left to clumsily read or even create their own mythologies.