What is an inadvertent neoglyph?
“An unintentional symbol created from an unconscious collaboration between human activity and external elemental forces within the urban landscape. An archive of history and evolution which depicts an abstract encyclopedia of human existence.”
— Shannon Michael Terry
INADVERTENT NEOGLYPHS
NEVADA TRASH DUMPSTER
DISTRESSED BILLBOARD
DISTRESSED BILLBOARD is a video documenting the making of a still image for the Inadvertent Neoglyph photography series by Shannon Michael Terry.
CARDBOARD FRAME
“I want the prints to be seen for what they are: beautiful prints on high quality fine art papers, with no glare or gloss in front of them.”
SHANNON MICHAEL TERRY
Born in Los Angeles, California, at an early age, Shannon was consumed with drawing, painting and assemblage. Today, as a multi-disciplinary artist, Shannon pursues photography, drawing, painting, poetry, music and sound.
For Shannon, photography is an exercise in observation; a deepening of awareness where inspiration and breath meet and the ephemeral is observed. He is most interested in objects, abstractions, shadow and light and how composition is formed through the subtle communication in any given environment. How we as people leave things in the world waiting to be discovered: a trash can, a discarded piece of paper, a television sitting on a curb, a mattress leaning on a tree, are all signs and symbols of humanity, objects pointing to the human element yet left with a voice of their own.
The Inadvertent Neoglyph Photography Series 