At The Circus Powerful Polaroid Photo Art by Paul E Williams

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Polaroid Photo Art At The Circus by Paul E Williams. A unique series of abstract Polaroid photos depicting characters from an imaginary circus.

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At The Circus Abstract Polaroid Photo Art Prints

” This series was inspired from the remarkable French Circus Archaos . During the late 1980 and early 1990s Archaos revolutionised the notion of what a cirus was. Critics described its success in terms of a break with tradition. “The anti-circus circus,” enthused The Irish Times. “It rewrites the rules as it pays tribute to circus tradition,” admired The Age. “A devil’s carnival,” warned The Daily Mail. “A real people’s theatre,” declared the Guardian.

Firstly I was experimented with Polaroid 803 film which I then solarised. Finally I had to copy them onto 5×4 film as they dried to make a negative to print from.

I was working with rusty metal objects a lot with this technique as a result, I became fascinated by the shadows the objects formed. In At The Circus I found the shadows created the circus character that I finally wanted to portray. The use of rusty metal and the complete absence of traditional circus references was inspired by Archaos. As a result I made my own punk circus and I hope you enjoy it “. Paul E Williams.