Hugh Burden

MY PORTFOLIO: THE EVERYDAY RE-IMAGINED

LANDSCAPE

I observed random textures and shapes on walls, they appeared to have meaningful interpretations as landscapes; pareidolia was at work. By adding sympathetic images surreal landscapes were revealed; narratives that belie their origins.

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Unclad construction concrete wall in its raw state forms the background of distant hills and ploughed fields foreground.Three real trees and pale clouds complete the landscape. A small crumbling section revealing aggregate looks like a flock of birds in the sky.
CONCRETE - MOUNTAINS
A wall with pale beige cracked plaster forms the background. A horizon of a grey mountains is the illusion given where some plaster has fallen off. In the foreground the plaster is dirty and peeling; completing the illusion of foreground rocky outcrops. Clouds, a tree, a flock of birds escaping a hawk complete the landscape.
PLASTER - FLIGHT
Side wall of an old village house in France, the plaster crumbling places to reveal rough brickwork beneath. Overlaid on this ‘canvas’ perfectly blending in is a conical brick construction with overgrown weeds on top. A swooping Hawk disturbs a flock of crows who take flight.
RENDER - CASTLE HUNT
Beige painted concrete rendered wall with grey cemeted repaired patches the original wall background gives the feeling a canyon with a gorge running through the middle. There are trees and clouds and a small grazing deer looking to front added.
WALL - FOSSIL CANYON
An ancient stone block wall with a disintegrating rusty rain down-pipe sets the background, at the pavement level, to a third the way up. green lichen ad mosses grow over black staining. The pipe is like a tree trunk the green area a forest. Tree Roots are added growing into the paving, and real trees to to suggested forest.

BLOCK - ROOTED

Black staining from city grime and pollutants mark a limestone coloured rendered wall. Some white paint has been daubed over a part of the ‘scene’ with a broad brush. After some photoshop manipulation the scene becomes a nigh-time landscape looking over a golden corn field to a row of silhouetted black houses.

RENDER - WHEAT FIELD

distressed wall gives watery feel to this composite og a lake with grass reeds

MISTY LAKE 01

A distressed wall forms the texture and feel for a pond scene with a large fish creating water riples

MISTY LAKE 02

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