Black Obsidian.
Sculpture. Kirklees. 2022

Born of three elements, three beings coming together to be who are to ourselves with one another. Tangerines and 90’s VHS camcorders recording an iPad 2 as if it were an LCD monitor. The vibe at the time was tainted with that London air of Notting Hill carnival and summer was plentiful and giddy.

Our framework and aim was to bring Black Obsidian to light with an all as one approach to style photography and art. The setting was a curated bedroom permanently in an evolving process that always felt as it should. Based on what I connect to as a “Spider Webs Light Hotel”; a parallel lined asymmetrical example of the 1950’s. The social housing blocks did what they could often do by transforming whatever it had into whatever it needed to be. A place with less passports than its occupants. A metaphysical landscape of materials, texture and choreographed light worked through our layers into the lens of Christians classically unique sounding P7. Supermalt, laughter and a moment in a timeless summer.

Credits:

Artist – Benaiah Matheson

Model – Bruna

Photography – Christian Cassiel

Styling – Connor Clarke