Balmori Associates, square, Accrington, Lancashire, England, 2007. Digital rendering. This rendering for a competition entry uses a dot matrix representational strategy to blur the sharp contours of objects.
the traditional relation of landscape as background. However, we remain firmly attached to the horizon line – a fundamental part of any landscape – so that
(Opposite) Balmori Associates, Wild & Us Competition, St Patrick’s Island, Calgary, Canada, 2012. Digital rendering. This perspectival rendering breaks the traditional conventions of foreground, middle ground and background through the use of colour.
the representation remains anchored in some form of realism and does not become totally abstract. It is a hybrid, referencing the real world but abstracting
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