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A visual artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Underlying most of Edwards' work is an exploration of urban spaces through sculptural and photographic work. His works elaborate on the "nature" of cities by framing overt photographic representations of the infrastructure of the city (trains, roads, flood channels...etc.) with structural sculptural forms. The sources of his interest in the city seem to have an origin in his distinctly post-modern experience of growing up on a developing suburbian fringe of Orange County California where the infrastructure of bridges, tunnels, drainage ditches and irrigation channels were the space of "nature" for him and his friends. As he describes it, those purely utilitarian places were boyhood refuge from the over-structured social experience of the hyper-suburbia of Southern California. From a personal origins in a "tagger" boyhood, Edwards' work extends towards larger questions about the construction of social spaces and maps through the physical metaphors of utilitarian elements in urban landscapes. |