Artist statement: ‘Sisterhood’ speaks to the anxieties and concerns of our time and longs for intimacy and connection. Concealed behind the foreground story and present only in the form of absence is the threatening unknown. An absence is often the focus of my work. I seek to explore the aesthetic quality of deterioration and decay. My practice investigates ways in which external forces contaminate the body of the imagery and destroy its content. The source of these forces is always something that is outside the frame. By returning to an archive of family photographs, I aim to re-contextualise the traumatic history I've inherited. Felt in my body, yet invisible to my eyes, is the shattering experience of dissolution.
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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.
