 Hamblin's work is an investigation into the identification of the space between memory and experience. It is a narrative of presence and absence.
The construction of a finished piece of work involves repeated and over layered images that have, at various stages, been manipulated through light projection.
Hamblin’s recent work around Canterbury Cathedral focuses on the weathering of time and the impact of continuing human touch, the imprints of human existence on this historical structure.
Before its collapse into the sea, the artist photographed the decaying structure of the West Pier in Brighton. Here was a structure that could use as a metaphor for the idea that a space can hold a past and a history; a past that was once vibrant and occupied, but now a system of decaying, claustrophobic spaces. The shadowed interiors, exemplified by peeling paint and broken windows, contrast with the open spaces beyond. These spaces are both literal and metaphorical: the sea stretches off into the distance and the past is the space occupied by a series of recollections.
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