Woman from settlement with boobs2010
This photograph shows a woman posing in front of a painted backdrop. The title of the work has been spray-painted across the backdrop in a style that suggests amateur sign-writing or graffiti. The woman is bare breasted, and has ironically been made up as a caricature of a Papua New Guinean woman; her body and face have been crudely painted with a black and brown pigment, she wears a printed-fabric skirt and a headdress of feathers, she carries a coconut leaf broom in a bilum (string bag), and she holds a hand-rolled cigarette. This paraphernalia refers to key tropes in the history of photographing and stereotyping Papua New Guinean women. The woman in this photograph is the artist’s mother, who is actually from the Chimbu Province of Papua New Guinea; which is to say that she is of Melanesian appearance without having been dressed up. By augmenting her ‘blackness’ in clichéd ways, the portrait challenges the stereotypes that are applied to Papua New Guinean women.
(2019)
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.
