Through her multidisciplinary practice, Jemima Wyman explores the universal visual languages of protests and sites of conflict. She is particularly interested in patterning and masking, and the way camouflage is used as a formal, social, and political tool that can play a role in concealing and revealing identity. Wyman is primarily known for her photographic collages, for which she sources thousands of images from around the world that depict universal acts of protest and resistance, such as the use of flares. She finds these archival photographs online and prints them herself before meticulously hand-cutting them and arranging them into unique compositions that sometimes take the shape of plumes of smoke or mandalas. In this work, Wyman has created a circular formation that alludes to celestial spheres. While this abstract composition evokes a portal to a faraway galaxy, it is in fact grounded in events that have taken place in numerous locations on Earth, each of which have been carefully documented in the work’s longform title that can be found via the QR code below.
https://maph.org.au/documents/136/World_Cloud_FullTitle.pdf
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.
