Übermensch lol, Snake Creek Armament Depot2019
Artist statement: Subverting nationalistic and colonial depictions of landscape and rural people, these images belong to a series of photographs titled Back out created in Australia’s Northern Territory. I was born in Darwin and belong to a rural community nearby, and this project explores the increasing sense of nihilism, boredom, and decay I feel there. It draws on the growing outsider status of rural people compared to mainstream Australia, and the political implications of what Andrés Rodríguez-Pose describes as the revenge of the ‘places that don’t matter’, such as the rise of regional populism. The images respond to this growing alienation from mainstream Australia by rural subcultures, isolated across the vastness of the Australian continent. My practice involves efforts to try and befriend, value, and make meaning around landscape elements, such as meat ants, termites and trees, as a possibly futile, yet tender way to counterbalance the alienation in the wake of the colonial mindset.
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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.
