Found scattered on the floor of a workshop that manufactures industrial components, these seemingly useless waste metals were waiting to be collected for recycling.
I found myself examining and collecting them in the manner an archaeologist deals with fossils. They bear a sort of prehistoric symbolism to modern construction, reminiscent of how analog photography is regarded as a relic in the face of digital imaging.
Photographing these scraps with a traditional large-format camera, I aim to pictorially celebrate the beginning of a new life in these humble objects at the end of their previous.
By creating this life-size black and white photographic prints of these objects made monuments, materiality of the objects are mediated through photography.
It allows space for viewers to contemplate on tension between the grit of the scrap metal and beauty of the photographic image, and how the two are so fascinatingly juxtaposed against each other.