Chromatic Descent Ed. 1 of 1

Shot looking down, this image collapses architecture into pure abstraction — vertical bands of colour (red, ochre, teal, pink, blue, chartreuse) fill the frame like a found Colour Field painting, while a blurred figure mid-stride anchors the composition in lived, fleeting time.
The tension between stillness and movement is deliberate. The colour panels feel almost monumental — solid, structural — yet the figure dissolves into them, a ghost of urban life passing through geometry. The raw concrete wall at right grounds the image in the unglamorous fabric of the everyday city.
Influences span the chromatic boldness of Harry Guyaerts constructed spaces, Jesse Marlow’s instinct for the poetic collision of figure and environment, Geoffrey Smart’s cool architectural surrealism, and Fred Herzog’s eye for colour as emotional weight in ordinary places.
Printed and framed at A2, the scale rewards the viewer — the colour blocks hold their presence on the wall, and the figure’s blur reads with cinematic tension.

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Ed is a passionate photographer and digitial artist. His focus is on forms, shapes, movement colour and shadows to represent his observations of the "waiting room". His vision for his art represents silent, still moments. He seeks to capture the feeling of this "waiting room"—the liminal, in-between spaces of modern life where the world seems to hold its breath.

Ed is inspired by Jeffry Smart, Trent Parke, Jesse Marlow, and Saul Lieter among many others.