Andrew Petrich

I thought I would turn David’s photograph of a building completely around. Instead of showing the outside I made this image inside the Fithian Building here in Santa Barbara. The Fthian Building has some historical significance for Santa Barbara. It was here during the 1925 earthquake and lost its 3^rd story. Today, it houses multiple small businesses from architects to lawyers. Each has a room or series of rooms  had odd doors and the old wooden floors creak under the feet of anyone walking the hallways. This character I have used before during this game. In fact I made this image on the same day I made the one of him in the concrete room I played on June 30, 2013. I chose to use this one against the buildings because of the color of the building in David’s image is so similar to the color of the walls in this image. Also, as we look at the outside of the building, this character is looking at the inside of the building. The horizontal lines of the wainscot suggests the comparison to a horizontal cityscape while the man’s body is the vertical standing as a sentinel like a single isolated building in the landscape. He appears to be looking up just beyond the frame of the photo, which might suggest to the viewer there is something to see outside the border of the image. This takes advantage of one of the things I love about photography. Using the edge of the image to define something that may or may not be there. What we do not see becomes just as important as what we do see. Do you see what I mean?