Artist statement: Inspired by Maeve Brennan’s 1962 short story for The New Yorker titled ‘A mysterious parade of men’, I imagined a fictional parade and photographed the peculiar men who were either participants or enthusiastic spectators.
The resulting portraits range from contractually-obliged half smiles, the completely over-it impatience of a dad who is thinking about how much the parking is costing him, to the overly passionate groupie of the costume-figures. ‘Spiderman waits in Corolla’ is representative of these half-smiles and over-it impatience, yet he sits within the context of celebration and optimism, something that I hope will rub off on him.
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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.
