Angle of List examines the visual residue of global systems of circulation, trade and storage through a series of photographs of shipping containers and industrial surfaces. Produced over an extended period of observation, the images isolate fragments of infrastructure that exist at the intersection of utility, decay and abstraction.
The title draws upon the dual meaning of the word list: the inclination of a vessel away from equilibrium and the catalogue as a system of classification and order. These two definitions provide the conceptual framework for the work. The photographs depict structures designed to facilitate movement, organisation and control, yet their surfaces reveal the gradual effects of time, weather, corrosion and neglect. Systems intended to remain stable instead become sites of drift and transformation.
Throughout the series, signs of use, maintenance and deterioration accumulate as layers of accidental mark-making. Peeling paint, rust, scratches and industrial coatings produce visual relationships that oscillate between document and abstraction. Functional objects begin to resemble colour-field compositions, minimalist constructions or archaeological fragments detached from their original purpose.
While rooted in the material reality of global logistics networks, the work is less concerned with the movement of goods than with the traces left behind by those movements. The container becomes both object and archive: a surface upon which histories of circulation, labour, exposure and entropy are continually inscribed and erased.
Angle of List explores the aesthetics of infrastructure at the point where systems of order begin to falter. It considers how processes of decay generate unexpected forms of beauty and how the structures that underpin contemporary life become, through time, records of their own instability.
