Project 4 - Beauty in the Abandoned

Artist Statement

In this photo essay, my intention is to explore and portray the human condition, metaphorically left behind and conveyed by these buildings and structures. I find that these buildings have become much more interesting in their decrepitude than for what they were originally designed. 

Condemned apartment complexes, abandoned warehouses and back-lots, closed businesses, old run down bridges - once bustling with activity and hope for the future. Although most times, right out of frame is a busy city, these images could just as well have portrayed a silent post-apocalyptic world. Everything you see in these images is but a shadow of what it used to be – yet in those shadows, there is hidden beauty. Hidden treasures.  

Little microcosms of textures, flaking, curling, rusting, crumbling,

seeping, ... growing. Trees and vines do not care from what crack or crevice they emerge, nor do they pay mind to the surface to which they attach. Sooner or later, nature and the elements reclaim all, and in that process, sublime and wonderful things happen.

Daniel Wolters

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