Logan Square stack I, August 302018
Artist statement: Working with photography, my artistic practice aims to address the relationship humans have with material things, the agency of objects, and the built environment. By mirroring photographic tropes, my work examines the illusionistic properties of the picture plane and the medium’s aptitude for fantasy.
In my studio, I compile still lifes using thrifted and discarded items, found detritus and representations of vernacular architecture. These simultaneously quotidian and fanciful images consider the empathy and apathy people have for material items and their environs.
This examination of objects, along with my nascent glassmaking practice, has sparked a deep interest in transparent matter and the role it plays in containment, vision and reflection.
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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.
