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Gold 2023 Architecture / Buildings

The Art of Destruction

  • Photographer
    Guntis Lauzums
  • Prize
    Gold in Architecture / Buildings

This series examines demolition through the lens of modern day Vanitas emphasizing the Art of Destruction. The series draws attention to the annihilation of previous beliefs and the futility of worldly pursuits. Civilization changes what we view as beautiful through the passage of time reminding us that nothing can prevent decay and death, even of institutions and buildings. This moment of change creates fleeting images, emphasizing how man both sparks and creates destruction. Likened to the carnage of Roman, Greek and Babylonian architectures, the images reflect the pointless search for power

My Architectural Abstraction work is the study of line form and color through the use of minimal and abstract concepts.