When History Flowers - The Arms Plant

July 31, 2012

While making prints of photographs from a recent assignment at the Colt building, I started noticing patterns and symbols created when a print was set adjacent to itself and rotated.

07.18.2012 – Dome and Broken Window Pane.

07.18.2012 – Dome and Broken Window Pane.

After copying, pasting and rotating.

After copying, pasting and rotating.

Considering the Colt’s dense history as an arms plant and its fragile reemergence as an art and residential complex, these arrangements presented an interesting photographic path for considering the Colt’s past and potential.

07.18.2012 – Spiral Staircase With Rail.

07.18.2012 – Steam Pipes and Frosted Glass

07.18.2012 – Peeling Paint

07.18.2012 – Spent Shell Casings

07.08.2012 – Fallen Wires

07.18.2012 – Cast Iron Spiral Staircase

07.18.2012 – Stairwell

07.18.2012 – Sink and Painted Steam