The Thousands

If your eye has ever caught a glint of sun refracting off a water glass on your desk (or you’ve ever read Mike Mills’ essay on ‘light’ for Cosmic Wonder Free Press), then you’ll know the enigmatic aura objects can expel. Four emerging artists exercise their powers in constructing and capturing the atmospheres of objects via photography.

Meditating on the beauty of paused moments, Max Creasy’s layered worlds hold a curious motive – to induce an illusion of his process. His objects are plaster cast and arranged, the light and shadows are hand painted on to the scene, it’s photographed, and presented in 2D format – appearing as a painting. Ambiguous and labour-intensive yes, but a refreshing puzzling of the mind.**Rich with narrative possibilities Roberta Thornley’s images of air beds and empty bottles also ask questions. Emidio Puglielli questions how we read an image by converting the photograph to object status. Naomi White recreates public interior scenes assigning new thought and beauty to the junk that makes up old spaces.

So it’s really a collection of questions and assembly of objects in unusual places.