The Windmill Street Passageway was a busy linking thoroughfare between bond stores on Windmill Street and Hickson Road wharves at Walsh Bay, Sydney. Its use diminished during the twentieth century, and now stands as a little-used pedestrian space. Remnant structural imprints act as sentinels to this history: simultaneously advancing towards the viewer (and thus marking the space) and receding from view (and so merging with their surroundings). This state is both balanced or imbalanced and reinforces the physical and ideological friction that exists within the built environment.
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.
