London is a pagan city, with runes etched into its very fabric. There have been many gods passed through. Money, of course, but now, space. Every inch is made into value and deified. No more space can be wasted, yet many buildings stand empty. But within these empty spaces, within the cracks and crevices of the city, the runes persist. These markings – remnants of a forgotten language, echoes of a time before commodification – commune with natural forces, whispering secrets of a different kind of worship. This god of space, like those before it, shall pass, they seem to read. Find the eternal in the recesses instead.
This tension between the ephemeral nature of value and the enduring presence of the eternal is explored through photographs of ancient mark-making and organic forms reclaiming the neglected surfaces of the city. Interspersed are abstract compositions that reference the modernist awe of construction and landscapes of urban construction sites. Through these images, I aim to encourage viewers to explore the tension between the material and the spiritual, inviting them to contemplate the immutable in the seemingly mundane.
These photographs seek to uncover the sacred within the profane, revealing the enduring presence of the eternal in the ever-changing urban landscape.