Yellow selection: All of the photographs I shot that I think illustrate abstraction is included in this yellow collection. On the trip to 798, my inspiration for abstract photography is primarily patterns. I used a variety of formal elements that can extrude patterns into my images while on the trip.

Green selection: To reflect my vision, I selected these images from the yellow Selection. My objective was to capture abstraction in photographs and show the viewer how distinctive an object or location can become when abstraction components are included. These photographs differ from the ones I chose for the yellow selection in that they provide a greater understanding of the patterns I was trying to represent by utilizing various items, settings, and scales that collectively create a pattern.

Red selection: As my vision was to best represent the elements of patterns the red selection is the images that I find best represent the element and is corresponding to each other forming a set of 3 photos.

The first image on the left is a photograph I shot in a jewelry store; based on each pair of earrings, they make a pattern as a whole; yet, when we look closer, each pair of earrings is distinct; they display their own type of pattern in some way.

The second/middle image, which is of rows of wine in a Japanese restaurant we ate at 798, also demonstrates a brilliant use of pattern.

The last image on the right is something we saw as we walked out of the restaurant after lunch. It was a very creative design that used used glass beer bottles to create this pattern that also reflected the restaurant’s name.