Thresholds

Walking through the city of Melbourne we experience threshold spaces physically and visually. We rush through city on our way to work or University, cutting through familiar laneways and retail spaces but what if you stopped and looked at your surroundings? This series is about stopping and really looking - at reflections and distortions, capturing the unseen and the overlooked. The images could be considered oblique views, subjectively and figuratively, the different perspectives offered here make the familiar uncanny. The Concert Hall has mirrored escalators transporting you to a theatrical experience while the Block Arcade seems to be in Collins street.

St. Collins Lane in Melbourne is a wonderful folly of checkerboard floors, mirrored ceilings and walls, glass waterfall lights descending from on high. There are many empty shops and cafes on the dark upper floors, ghosts of the pre-pandemic days when St. Collins was the newest coolest city lane. The curving staircase seems to go nowhere, oversized armchairs are rarely occupied and upper deserted levels are creepy. The space alludes to something straight out of Alice in Wonderland, curioser and curioser. This series was presented as a Photo book and the following images are a sample.