Concrete Churches is a series that uses post war architecture of Coventry as a focal point to explore themes of life, death, rebirth and identity. Emerging from the devastation of the second world war Coventry’s city of the future was born, fast forward to 2025 and much of this post war architecture finds itself at odds with the ever changing world that surrounds it. Some architecture is still the heartbeat of the city’s daily life. Some buildings have been left neglected and abandoned as they slowly decay from the relentless aging of time. Others find themselves awaiting execution to make way for the new city of the future. This series imagines these buildings and structures as living organisms going through different stages of life and death, as they try to find their way in an ever-evolving world that is trying to leave them behind in the name of progress. Religious and sci-fi imagery has been merged and used in this series to transform the post war architecture into surreal saintlike figures. This series holds a mirror up to our own lives and how we are constantly trying to keep up with the progress of the world around us. This series is also a personal documentation of buildings and structures that I have grown up with my whole life and that represent the identity of Coventry to me. One by one as these buildings are destroyed, I feel the city is losing a part of its history and identity while I am losing my own personal connection to the hometown I grew up in. This series asks the audience to think about their own relationships with the architecture around them and the memories they attach to these buildings. It questions whether the city of the future will ever be achieved or if it will remain an elusive fantasy that is always just out of reach of the perpetual loops of progress.