Artist statement: I am my own/only model in my works. I believe the lonely nature of this process can be felt in the images I make, instilling scenes otherwise interpreted to be exploitative with a sense of solitary contemplation. My images strip bodies of their common context, presenting them at the level of their surrounds. Our rites and rituals are reduced by nature. Its indifferent equality exposes these practices as physiological processes, no different to any other on earth. Death, our body’s final ritual of earthly unification, can be a powerful experience of this fact. Juxtaposing the freedom of this realisation with the omnipotent gaze of the viewer, ‘Pond body’ raises questions about our will to govern the nature of our internal and external world.
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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.
