I’ve had an interest in the urban and domestic spaces for quite a while, living in them my entire life, I’ve learnt to appreciate their quaint and repetitive forms. The rental that I currently live in is falling apart, and will be demolished in the foreseeable future, yet, for some reason I still feel attachment to its lonely broken-down silhouette in the developed street. I wanted to convey these feelings, showing that the spaces that we so often look past can be beautiful and sometimes mystical.

I found that garages, often the most overlooked room of the house, provided the perfect doors to another world. Their square shape and their loud presence in the urban environment created a window with just enough room to see what could lie beyond. I find it quite amusing, as garages are quite mundane and are rarely perceived beyond the amount of room they have to store things. This defies the preconceptions one may have towards what lies beyond a garage door.

My intention is to have the viewer reconsider the way they perceive urban spaces. Utilising this unexpected and uncanny effect to show that some things are not as boring as they seem.