Artist statement: I aim to explore how ritual and role-play are shaped by cathartic desires of our society. I believe in exploring and inhabiting archetypes as an act of catharsis and self-analyses. This is particularly prevalent in my photography where the participants ‘dress up’ as an archetype to allow themselves to live out that facet of their personality.
With particular interest in toxic masculinity and queer identity, I aim to attend to the multiple and conflicted readings of the body and their translation into the social roles they inhabit. Investigating the male body in particular as both violent and intimate, playful but harsh, erotic but confrontational. I hope to gain a better understanding of the limitless possibilities of gender roles and identities.
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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.
