Triggered!: Michael Lundgren
Platonic Solid © Michael Lundgren
As a photographer, I’ve always been interested in whittling things down to a bare essence –stone, water, fire, light, dark–the elemental. I believe things speak more clearly in their simplest form. I was drawn to this cube of cement because it reminded me of a perfect geometry––a platonic solid, hence the title. It was angularly embedded into the desert as if it had fallen from outer space. I could almost hear the sound of it thumping into the sand. There was nothing else man-made in the area just this lone meteor of concrete. Photography often plays with positive and negative and in this case, the invisible buried corner of the cube was replaced by its triangular shadow. When I made this image I was looking for ways that photography could transcend human ruins by transforming them into something iconic, something free from the field of time.
Michael Lundgren is represented by Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco and his latest monograph, Geomancy, was just released by publisher, Stanley/Barker Books, U.K. More of his work and his a link to this book can be found at his website http://www.michaeldlundgren.com.
