Working primarily in recycled substrates and materials, Hugo Garcia Urrutia and MK Semos do what they do best, unifying image and form along with celebrating Western world capitals, in their current body of work, Wooden Postcards.

The photography work created by Semos and Garcia Urrutia in this collaborative exhibition is an ongoing body of work and visual interpretation of an urban landscape, full of nostalgia, decay and charm, from New York City, London, Mexico City, and other cities around the globe, as places of inner experience as well as urban sprawl. Like a web slowly forming, these special hubs of the world act as melting pots, cradling vast amounts of cultures and ideas; Live organisms that become cultural icons themselves.

The imagery is initially created by Semos, who utilizes a manual, very basic Holga film camera, allowing her to create and manufacture intuitive collages of composition inside the camera by overlapping frames and double exposing the film. Later, after processing the film, "story boards" are chosen from her lengthy narrative of images, signs, pop-color, and surprise code. Her cross-processing technique gives colors maximum saturation.

What Semos' imagery seems to lack in people, is actually all about people. It describes how congregations move, whispers of what they create, and implies the energetic footprint they've left behind.

The work is taken to another level with the expert effort of Garcia Urrutia, as he experiments with different un-orthodox substrates and photographic finishes. The imagery is integrated with reclaimed hardwood floors in this case, allowing the viewer to experience the grains and truest colors of the wood; the quality and grains of the wood becoming part of the image composition. The recycled hardwood floor is also evocative of the high volume imagery that the viewer can see in the artwork itself, reminding one of the concentrated effort of foot-traffic associated with the worn footprint that we all leave behind.

Biography of Hugo G Urrutia and MK Semos