Artist statement: I’m fascinated that we share more than 66% of our DNA with bananas and am equally concerned about the emerging prospect of their extinction. The commercial production of the world’s favourite fruit is approaching wipeout by disease blamed on mono-culture farming. Global banana crop collapse is an alert to the new orders shaping the dawn of the Anthropocene. For this work I speculate on the banana’s future. Working from a single mould, I produce frozen banana replicas in the same way that the seedless banana is propagated from a single origin. The resulting ice bananas melt silently into new arrangements, dripping tears of their remembered sweetness as they organically transform into new combinations.
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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.
