Where we begin (sunless) #32016
Artist statement: My current photographic works engage a spatial dialogue between depictions of the Australian landscape and the language of sculptural practice. I approach the landscape photograph as an active object whose material presence and implicit history holds much conceptual potential. Framed by my experience as a first generation Australian, I engage landscape as a cross-cultural device to pose questions of identity and belonging in relation to place. In this work I remove the depicted landscape’s sun through a circular incision. Once lit, the projected shadow’s assumed form mediates the spaces of the photograph, the frame and the exhibiting context – a provisional form of marking that signifies my liminal identity. When faced with this materially and spatially displaced version of the sun, the locational marker that grounds and orients us all, how then do we re-orient ourselves, adapt and regain our bearings?
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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.
