TRANSform

This body of work was created in honour of the local vernacular architecture. Those functional buildings which so often characterise our lives but yet are not given much conscious attention. What lies beyond these familiar façades? And what do they tell us about our individual and community identities?

Icons of suburban living, at once familiar and strange; facades and fragments amplified by their featureless background they represent the homes that hold, protect, conceal and reveal our individual and community identity.

The title of this body of work, TRANSform, can be broken down and defined in many ways. All of these are relevant and will I hope, provide you with insightful and alternative ways to view it.

trans-

trans,trɑːns,-nz/

prefix

prefix: trans-

1.

across; beyond.

2.

through.

into another state or place.

3.

Chemistry

denoting molecules with trans arrangements of substituents.

fɔːm/

noun

noun: form; plural noun: forms

1.

the visible shape or configuration of something.

style, design, and arrangement in an artistic work as distinct from its content.

2.

Philosophy

the essential nature of a species or thing, especially (in Plato's thought) regarded as an abstract ideal which real things imitate or participate in.

verb

verb: form; 3rd person present: forms; past tense: formed; past participle: formed; gerund or present participle: forming

1.

bring together parts or combine to create (something).

go to make up or constitute.

gradually appear or develop.

conceive (an idea) in one's mind.

establish (a relationship).

articulate (a word or other linguistic unit).

construct (a new word) by derivation or inflection.

2.

make or be made into a specific shape or form.