Cement & Concrete Abstracts

Abstracts created by markings on the road, concrete walls and cracking cement floors.

Concrete diptychs of mine.

The white bark of a tree is combined with the concrete of a bridge strut.

The cracked concrete of a floor is combined with a dying Giant Rhubarb Gunnera leaf.

A lichen-crusted cement wall combined with a fruiting lichen on the bark of a tree.  

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Similar street photographs of cracks and concrete by the Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase who has overlaid his images with bright ink markings making a difficult-to-resolve story dimension.

https://www.anzenbergergallery-bookshop.com/book/1226/hibi-masahisa_fukase

from their website:

Hibi literally comprises a series of street photographs by renowned Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase. Each of the black and white images painstakingly attend to the road’s surface – the worn road-markings, the fading lines and arrows eroded by the city’s innumerable inhabitants, a web of fissures in the asphalt. In 1992, Fukase printed and painted the works for a solo exhibition, ‘Private Scenes ‘92’, held at Nikon Salon in Tokyo. He overlaid a set of bromide prints with fluid drawings in brightly coloured inks and on every image the physical presence of the artist is traced, a shadow-presence which seems to offer a reading, an interpretation but one that can never be fully resolved.

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More of the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Abstracts.