Hallstatt See Hallstatt2015
Artist statement:
This work combines two photographs. One was taken in Hallstatt, Austria – a 5th-century UNESCO listed salt town – and the recently built copy of this town in Southern China.
Both places now present a mirror to each other. Through using copy, cut and paste and leaving traces of the manipulation, this work draws on the idea of mise en abyme and the copy.
The newly created landscape, combining two places (one a copy of the other) seeks to challenge and unsettle usual associations of landscapes and reflect on contemporary issues of history, space, time and the imagination.
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.
