Artist statement: Small acts of resistance is a series featuring subjects who defy normative notions of kinship and identity as a mode of survival within Australia. Against a backdrop of social and ecological precarity, these interconnected life-ways reflect small but vital acts of resistance. Presented as a triptych, the series references the trifold frames of both the traditional family portrait and religious icon.
Here the conventional concepts of family are challenged in a hyper-visual tableau vivant. In this portrait, two fathers and loving friends make up the familial support network around the newborn. The intertwined objects and botanics reflect the personal and cultural through-lines that knit the family and its many stories of diasporic and queer unions together.
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.
