JOE P SMITH

 

Born: 17 March 1959

Nationality: Maltese

 

Formal Art Education:

Design Scholarship at the Accademia Lorenzo di Medici in Florence Italy.

Graphic Course at the Art & Design

Centre, Malta.

On going Education: MA in Fine Arts-Digital at the University of Malta.

 

Joseph’s preferred media is Photographic. His subject matter is: Portraiture, Performing Arts and Social Documentary.

 

Comment on the Selfie Challenge:

The ideology was interesting and a unique, thematic, group exhibition.

 

 

THE SELFIE

 

BEYOND THE DOOR

2014

Photographic Image

W63 cm x H50 cm

Edition of Ten

 

 

This work is from a series called "Where Shadows Fall: Ghosts of Urban Decay". I projected my own shadow in various parts of this derelict building in Valletta and photographed the result. Here I was looking at establishing a sense of connection with the past as if to merge my shadow (spirit) with the ghosts of from a former existence. I was after that uncanny aesthetic pleasure that is derived from the ravages of time, the nostalgia, the musty smell and the impermanence of material things that wrap me into a seductive melancholy. The remaining debris haunted me and brings back half-forgotten memories of childhood. There
was an abundance of visual triggers that could only be found in a space like this.