It's My House!

Michael Shaw is a visual artist whose work focuses on income inequality and the wealth divide. He works primarily with cyanotypes, which provide a limited structure to work within and against, mirroring the limitations of affordable living. These works are made through handmade transparencies that are then used like photo negatives to produce the cyanotypes. Shaw’s works honor the culturally humble structures of the neighborhoods he seeks to protect. In art historical terms, he depicts modern representations of the ‘home of the serf’ who exists in the murky class system of the U.S.

“My experience watching buildings go up, both in my neighborhood and the greater section of the city, has been instrumental in focusing my work on how urban residences function as symbols of identity and bellwethers for inequality. I use cyanotypes (a pre-photography image-making method), as a more comprehensive form of a blueprint. As blueprints are to building and property planning, the cyanotypes I make, along with their corresponding transparencies, dig deeper into the physical and emotional core of a building, a house, and/or a home.”

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