Robin North's photography is one of abstraction of the everyday, wherein household objects, portraits of average people are accentuated by experimentation. He understands that there is a certain mysticism which the older techniques of the form lend themselves to. To me the question of a color gradient appears incredibly important to him. Because of the plates they're shot on all of his work has a certain kind of sepia tone to it, blurring the line between black and white, really relying on the browns, and greys, and reds that exist in between. So by using these older machines, developed with racist intentions, North is able to reclaim them blurring the color lines of his own portraiture and abstracting the everyday. Through this methodology of abstraction there is also one of deconstruction of notions of what forms represent: that is a house, Is it a house? This I view as a response to these techniques and philosophies of the everyday. For this assignment I took a photograph of hair in my sink drain, zooming in as far as I possibly could and shaking the camera slightly to distort the shapes. Then in Photoshop I pushed the colors up and tried to make the lines more jagged, trying again to create a fragmentation of the image and again working in within the constricting binary of black and white attempting to create color zones in the spaces between the two tones.