Green Facade Berlin
2008. Flashe on linen. Collection: Royal Bank of Canada

© Renée Van Halm

Reverse Engineering refers to the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. This involves taking apart a mechanical device, electronic component, or software program and analyzing its workings to try to make a new device or program that does the same thing without using or simply duplicating the original.
By applying this to a range of my own and appropriated photographic images I have been able to rexamine the structure, light and implied space as it is reflected the complex construction of the urban environment and some of what that might suggest.