Collection: Patrick Haemmerlien

Immersed in a layered urban paradigm of reality versus fantasy, Patrick Haemmerlein creates a visual soundtrack as a backdrop to his stark silhouettes, choreographing torn pages of poetry and bars of music from the 1800’s and early 19001s. Splashes of color punctuate the delicate balance between urban sprawl and rural wildlife in Los Angeles. He explores their coexistence through the beauty of contradiction, for example the Urban Coyote. Photographed in East Hollywood, Patrick is now placing him around the city to punctuate their urban existence.

As if the metropolis itself is submerged in introspect, Haemmerlein breathes life into these unique time capsules with branches and birds that mimic arteries and measured rhythm; intwining past, present, and future and delivering it to the viewer in a narrative of perpetual ebb and flow.