New millennium architecture brashly glitters and shines in this future-built world. Each building or structure standing before us like a brand-new trophy upon the city’s mantelpiece. Sometimes soulless, at times intimidating, these architectural statements are forever cemented into our work, rest and play environments. Our interaction with them is often a one-way dialogue. —The representation of an architects single minded Utopian vision, rising in a non-negotiable way from the sites of our predecessors. I’ve never believed that somebody's autocratic creation ends there. By using architecture and its many facades as a point of inspiration, my photographic work presents a way for me to search for a sense of intimacy in structures, — revealing themselves like hidden personalities from the shadows, (their alter egos if you will). In some ways the abstract approach I have taken is a paradox, as I subtract information from the frame in the form of representation, time and place in order to reveal more and come closer to what is unseen, revealing another layer beneath the surface view. When I observe built environments in this way architecture ceases to become the representation of a built form — metamorphosing into a series of compelling abstract interpretations. In this respect, my images are less about pictures, more a record of non-objective feelings, sensations and impressions that lead me to consider how we live in such an abstract world? American architect Louis Kahn once said, “Every building must have its own soul” but I wonder where the soul lies within our geometric confines. These, and subsequent works, are a search for that soul, as I seek out more in modernist architecture than what is cemented in the ground at face value.