Artist statement: I have always used the camera as a sketching tool – an aide de memoir.
As a teacher of art who teaches stylised art history, I often prepared lessons using slide transparencies and magazine pictures. These are still in my possession and they remind me of how much the nature of photography and art reproduction has changed.
Apart from the sheer magic of photography, I am fascinated by its innate recording and illustrating abilities.
This image uses the camera as a device to make work which is active and provisional, capturing something of the process by which thoughts subconsciously unfold. The photograph glues it all together, unifies, flattens and conflates the surface it captures. It ends up being a memorandum of a thought which has already moved on.
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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.
