A multi-layered abstract image of apartments in Shenzen City, Guangdong, China.
John Brooks have closeness with the structures that he explores and sense that the host structure or the fabric of a building oozes energy from their interior and 'muscular' forms. The glass or masonry covered form is merely an envelope locked onto the strength of the internal skeleton. Within that skeleton exists the everyday function of that structure whether it is domestic, social, industrial or other occupation. That occupation or use is the interior energy of the structure in which the artist is interested. Whilst the scale and impact varies from striking to subtle (sometimes only visible upon a double take), the artist relishes the opportunity to let a building 'feed' the form, as if the interior of the building is “exhaling into the work."