Cabbage, pears, longans2021
Artist statement: Representational strategies carry embedded notions of how we think about and conceive the world around us. The long history of the ‘still life’ in painting and photography has portrayed shifts in philosophical and scientific conceptions of the world, played out in pictorial space. Tearing photographs and reconstituting them in new compositions, I intend to reference photography’s shared history with painting and collage, shifted notions of spacetime, as well as the cut and paste of contemporary photographic processes. Extending photographic exposure presents an opportunity to enact the image through a series of events, a dance that takes place through space and time in the form of light.
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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.
