I took a photograph of construction workers returning from a day's labour, going with the flow of the traffic. The task was to completely change the image by experimenting and transforming it towards abstraction so that the final result is a complex visual far from the the starting point but based on the same concept.

First, I broke the image down into simple lines and volumes for a better understanding of the composition.

Inspired by German expressionist artist, Anselm Kiefer, I painted over a slab of collage tracing the lines I made with pencil previously. I made the figures transparent, as if the speed was tearing their flesh apart leaving behind skeletals.

The paper shreds in the collage are replaced by shreds of cardboard for a more brutal effect. the figures push further into absraction and re reduced to mere lines.

Using the graphic quality of magazine shreds to show chaos and chaos only, this simple composition was made to analyse the space and color only.

The figures go into complete abstraction however their surrounding is lost.

Another layer of material is introduced giving depth to the image. Lines are travelling in the opposite direction to suggest a friction between the abstract figurines and their surrounding.

A change of orientation and the chaos is controlled. A streak of yellow from my early memory of the workers. Yet something is missing in the composition.

A blank opening for the elements to breath completes the abstraction. The result is the same in essence but in the form, something entirely different.