Honey LONG and Prue STENT
Artist statement: Throughout our collaborative practice we have used our own bodies as a way of exploring material relationships between the female body, nature and culture. Led by what attracts us on a sensorial level, colour, texture and fluidity will often feature strongly. This work, ‘Brim’, was made on Wiradjuri country in the historic gold mining area of Hill End, New South Wales, where a loss of vegetation and heavy erosion have produced scarred and eerie landscapes of red earth. Within this scene a body interacts with glo-mesh and mud in a gesture which speaks to desire, consumption and fantasy, as well as earthly processes. The symbolic and the corporeal are made to co-exist in a way that gives rise to a surreal new vision of landscape and the human.
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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.
