Alejandro Aguirre

Useless Spaces

The future favors metropolitan skylines, the complex edginess of radicalness, and high-end industrialized fusion. From rural North Carolina to New York, there lies a different story; a begotten life of America\'s pastime and the decayed beauty of unkept wilderness and the unattended. A sign of entropy, mimicking our lives as dissolve from a state of being into nothingness. A reminder of nature\'s magical and chaotic hole, where the fluency of life builds and destroys simultaneously. A place where we can stand and perhaps be ourselves, uprooting us from the constraints of obligation in a contemporary world.

Photographer

Alejandro Aguirre

Every artist has a background, and mine begins near Denver, Colorado. I graduated from Colorado College with a philosophy, joined the military, and earned my Green Beret. In conjunction, I worked for the USPS as a rural carrier for close to 17 years, living an unexceptionally exceptional life. Life at the office can be mundane, perpetual, and purposeless, but it can also be adaptive, fulfilling, and purposeful. Postal routes have shaped my photographic perspective, illuminating the subtle changes in everyday existence and enhancing my ideas of light as transformative, process as poetry, and communication as privilege. All these features play heavily in my photography and help me depict stories that are unfolding and seemingly unfinished. In my photography, nostalgia, and its symbols access the collective through the inanimate, integrating space by collapsing time into a singularity. The photograph as communication device between generations, portraying some semblance of literal concreteness and flexibility in interpretation. I am an open-faced anonymity who enjoys playing soccer, mixed burrito conglomerations, and misses his mother's biscuits and gravy.

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