Subject is No Object

What happens if we remove the figurative elements captured by the lens from the composition, leaving only pure color?

Traffic footprint © 2024 Alvin Greis
The bridge © 2024 Alvin Greis

This experiment explores how recognizable reality can be transformed into abstraction without leaving reality behind. Familiar forms dissolve, while their colors remain and begin to form a new visual structure.

A turn © 2024 Alvin Greis
Highway cross © 2024 Alvin Greis

Everyday scenes become emotionally charged fields of color rather than recognizable subjects. The experiment asks how little of the visible world an image needs to retain before it becomes abstraction.

The construction © 2025 Alvin Greis