Artist statement: Domino theory uses archival photographs taken during the Vietnam War to deal with themes of mortality and remembering. To create this work, I scanned Kodachrome transparencies made by my late stepfather during his service in Vietnam. By manufacturing digital corruption in the image files, I have introduced a visual ‘glitch’ that interacts with existing disruptions on the surface of the images. A dialogue is created between the sharp tessellation of the digital glitch and the organic marks of dust, scratches, fingerprints, and mould. The glitch allows the viewer to consider the images as objects, inviting reflections on the nature of photography and inspiring thought on the experience of war, suffering, forgetting, and our relationship with our own mortality (our future), and with the past.
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.
