Robert Christie

Over the years I have been making photographs almost exclusively within the areas close to my home in Toronto . I am drawn towards abandoned spaces, discarded and neglected places. It is in these places that I have sought the moment of perfect stillness, and in the moment of that stillness transform or transcend the scene in front of me through the medium of photography.

A pile of rotting wood, the markings on the side of a wall, become profound symbols of the ephemeral nature of our existence. I am witness to time passing, and paradoxically, to the beauty of the moment as expressed through light and its effect on things. My photographs are perceptions of things as revealed by light, not as document, but as poetry. It is in the abstraction of the scene and its various elements that one can see the immediate physical and sensuous aspects of the moment.