Artist statement: ‘Twenty-Five’ is a photographic artwork and documentation of a site-specific intervention created directly onto a brick suburban home in Richmond, Victoria, in 2017. The work was documented at dusk by myself and my team of lighting technicians. The cinematic lighting removes aspects of the home’s specificity, placing it in a surreal ‘in-between’ space. Borrowing the familiar tropes of commercial photography, allows the work to retain a nod to its original context, while standing as a broader symbol for all homes. The home appears at once as a shelter and as a nexus of vulnerability. The red markings echo a target on a home about to be demolished. This house, is itself a target; a vulnerable object.
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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.
