The other night at Pecha Kucha I was exposed to some great artists and creatives who live in and around Cape Town. Dylan Culhane was one of those that stood out from the rest and his photographic and wallpaper art really made an impression on me. Take a look at these photographic wallpapers and you will see what I am talking about.
Below: Olympus Pattern and detail.
Below: Tokyo Man-hole pattern and detail.
Dylan’s work is a result of experimentation to try and find new and interesting ways of seeing the world. As he describes it, his work “relies on a tension between the real and the imagined, blurring the boundaries between photography, painting, illustration and design”.
Below: Barbed wire fence pattern and detail.
What I love most about Dylan’s work is that his photographs (in the above examples at least) are of rather mundane everyday things. Barbed wire and towering buildings are not exactly the most beautiful thing you will see in a day, but he seen it for it’s potential. He has created art pieces that covers a whole wall and that is pleasing to the eye. He has taken the ordinary and made it extraordinary.
