Natalie CATALFAMO
Loreto Mandeville Hall
VCE Studio Arts 3 & 4
Artist statement: My series captures a young girl transitioning into a dream, transcending from a conscious state of being to one of unconsciousness. Over three elongated compositions, I present individual images of the girl gradually descending down a blue empty space. In each image she appears to float. I achieved this by photographing her falling from a height into a sponge pit in my school’s gym. I used a very fast shutter speed to capture her frozen in motion. Then I selected three images of her and digitally superimposed them onto each composition. I then made her appear to be partly real and partly surreal by superimposing illustrative watercolour paintings I completed separately and scanned, as well as using digital tools to stylise elements of the figure.
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
