Artist statement: Repeated trips to a small Canadian town in the dead of winter lead to an unearthing of deep memories that had lain dormant for nearly four decades. Severe jetlag turned into sleepless nights, prompting these early morning wanderings, revisiting locations that years earlier were the scenes of a typically troubled youth. To me these images feel like virtual unconscious projections unwittingly captured by my all observant lens, the closest thing I can imagine to an out of body experience.
‘That is how I explained myself to the strange impression I had of being odd man out, a kind of intruder.’ Albert Camus, The Outsider
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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.
