Edinburgh-based (prev. Berlin) visual and sound artist Paul Meikle, can be found wandering, taking pictures of things that are often overlooked and disregarded. He’s interested in objects such as stair doors, skips and walls, worn and graffiti’d, with paint from it’s previous coat poking through after being pushed and rubbed against so many times. He sees these imperfections as parts of a story, each layer feeling like skimming through a page in a history book, reliving fragments of what came before.

Not content with simply recreating these sites, he combines features from different photos and translates the techniques that caused them to exist, swapping rain and dog piss for a wire brush and paint stripper. 

Materials found on the street feature heavily in his work, chipboard from old flats, scavenged metal sheets or layers of old posters torn from street walls become canvases or mediums in which he combines with the fabricated elements of time, grit, and dirt.