P Y L O N

Drawn to the stark geometric structure of pylons Henrietta imagined them being discovered by someone not knowing what they are and how they would view them. The meaning that they would give to them, were they communication towers or totemic statues? Standing tall against the barren wasteland with their arms outstretched to the sky. The inventor of pylons, Sir Reginald Blomfield, named them so because the word Pylon itself means an Egyptian gateway to the sun. If they assumed sacred meaning to them would they in turn begin to worship them as we revere religious or pagan artifacts left behind? By manipulating and mirroring photographs she had taken, Henrietta created these digital drawings of mandelic wheels. You can get lost staring at the shapes spinning out from the centre and they take on an almost religious meaning. Something so commonplace in our landscape and overlooked becomes something alien and beautiful.