Durand Seay

Durand Seay became an architect having a talent in understanding form, space, light, and process. His father, being an architect and civil engineer, happen to also be talented in watercolors. With an entire family of artists, this heritage implanted the strong desire to pursue the exploration of architecture, painting and photography. In kind, his art combines the intuition of an artistic inner self, and the influences of architecture.

Durand Seay's success in architecture is due in part to his ability to perceive space, not strictly as an enhanced volume to contain, but as an experience that is directly affected by the user, psychologically through movement and time. The understanding of space is gained from the action of moving within. Time can be slowed down, sped up, or stopped to manipulate how a space is made apparent. Seay's thoughtful awareness of human nature affects the sculpting of space and form, weaving enhanced experiences.

Durand Seay's artwork shows influences of three movements in art, the Cubists, the Italian Futurists and Surrealists. Seay, being also one to utilize photography in his work, studied the advent of strobe lighting. This photography opened him to study and dissect movement through producing mul...