Artist statement: Photographic capture is used as a means of holding observed instances that I come across amidst the doing/thinking of working on site – in the studio or exhibition context.
‘shield/splitting’ carries overlapping conceptual concerns active within the project series splitting open the surface on which it is inscribed. Installed as two photographic prints hung side-by-side, ‘shield/splitting’ shows the strategy of bracketing pairs of similar photographs in order to make conspicuous any incidental change or temporal alteration that occurs within the to and fro.
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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.
