Artist statement: The title of the series The myth of progress, is unfortunately an apt title, for the word ‘progress’ suggests improvements or developments, a ‘myth’ indeed when one begins to take for granted a world in which the very climate seems hell bent on global devastation due to human indifference to the world in which it lives.
As Freud noted in Civilization and Its Discontents, the ‘fateful question for humanity is whether the instinct for aggression and self-destruction’ will dominate, noting that: ‘Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent … [that] they would have no difficulty in exterminating one another to the last man.’ Freud hailed this as the cause of a general ‘mood of anxiety,’ and there is indeed a degree of anxiety in the work, albeit expressed with poetic beauty.
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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.
