Theoretic art writing:

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Nicholas Alan Cope

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'Nicholas Alan Cope’s photographs evoke a unique vision of Los Angeles and its contrasts as seen exclusively through its everyday architecture. Searching for the sublime core of the city’s true nature, Cope strips away the extraneous, and focuses on the sheer beauty and simplicity of the cityscape.' 

 

Nicholas Alan Copes theoretical practice is very similar to my own, the idea of stripping down an image to bare minimum and simplifying it is the point of my practice. I look to how I can take away elements which aren't seen to be necessary, to create a much less realistic image. 

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Reference: http://www.powerhousebooks.com/books/whitewash-2/

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Kazimir Malevich

 

"black and white serve as energy to disclose shape'."

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In my own practice I look to see how I can allow my primary geometric shapes to stand out, with the use of white as the background of the majority of my paintings, this allow my shapes to do so. I often add black line into my work also to create a similar outcome, allowing my block colours to almost step forward and not appear as flat as I originally painted them. 

  

Reference: Borchart-Hume. A, 2014, Malevich, London, Tate Publishing. p. 119

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Rasheed Araeen 

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'Photographs overlaid by or held within these geometric structures, bring in the personal and psychological and relate the human individual to the social structure in which s/he exists.'

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My most recent work is focusing upon how to make a photographs of something that is seen everyday by public, which is not labelled as anything other than a bridge or a passage from onside of the road to another, into something that is noticed as something other than just a metal structure. Working into primary images so that the viewer can have a personal experience with the image itself. 

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Reference: https://www.grosvenorgallery.com/artists/50-rasheed-araeen/overview/