Artist statement: I’ve been inspired by the imaginative possibilities of photography and three-dimensional motion technologies to create avatars, not as game characters, but in the context of spirit incarnate. This picture comes from a suite of figures, a pantheon of female nature emissaries who, in their animated projected form, playfully shift into corporeity as they encounter the physicality of space. Modalities of imaging technologies, dance and theatre are inferred, as is the physique and exuberance of my Aboriginal mother in many of the figures. Drawn from photos of Pearl King as a young woman, here the figure is clothed in a landscape photograph made in Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) country.
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.
