Pallalink : Twisted Symmetrie Photographs

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Here we have the work of pallalink, an online gallery of digital photography created by the Japanese artist Kazuhiko Kawahara [called 'Palla']. Palla is a former architect, having worked within the field for 10 years, who then switched his focusto photographing buildings / the built environment and rotating / mirroring / reflecting / shearing those images in such a way as to reveal what he refers to as the ‘hidden patterns within the city’.

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I’m actually working on a moving images series for my upcoming exhibition at Remo in Osaka. So my newer work contains some movies, too. Still, all compositions shown are based on one picture only. Some stills of one of my movies demonstrate the process quite well:

Starting from one original image I duplicate the layer, rotate, or flip it over. I then set the channel of the composition layer to “bright” or “dark” and shift it slowly until I see some interesting image.
Sometimes I repeat this process with completed images. The key of this process is to use only one image and also never to shift it randomly.

Looks easy, doesn’t it? The point is just where you stop!

By making it symmetrical I confront the natural with the mechanical, the artificial. Architecture in itself is made entirely by people to be used and controlled by people. It is artificial. However, when people come and gather, it becomes like a city, a living organism and the situation transforms into something more natural. My works contain both those artificial and natural components. I’m attracted by the dynamism of the change from a simple form to a complicated organism. [from the interview with Palla at PingMag]

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Honestly, what you need to do is visit the site and just look through all the images. It may prevent you from getting any work done all morning – but I’d say its worth it.

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pallalink webpage

pallalink slideshow / lecture

interview from PingMag

via gravestmor

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Posted: February 26th, 2007
at 8:46am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, photographie

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