Artist statement: My art practice, utilising multiple channel video works, photography, performance, objects and sound has sought to comment upon ideas of interchangeable identity and cultural difference, and the cultural and intellectual separation between east and west, as experienced between my past and present homelands.
Forty pages contemplates personal or global history in the context of movement from one culture to another, and refers to forty pages in a passport. This work presents my body as a site or platform, half Australian and half ‘other’. The henna Australian passport stamps, from the last decade of my life, placed on the back of my hand represent a form of beauty and part of the history of transience of my being.
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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.
