Artist statement: ‘The house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – Gaston Bachelard, The poetics of space
These photographs are taken from an ongoing series of portraits without a sitter.
The rooms become a stage, a theatre of the past. They are the private spaces where we can withdraw into ourselves. All have a history that allows the subject to be revealed in continuum through the evidence they have both knowingly and unintentionally surrounded themselves with.
I use the diptych to create a fractured perspective, extending the viewpoint beyond a single frame of reference. The two images stand alone, but connect and refer to each other revealing the uneasy dynamic between the creative mind and its surroundings.
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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.
