fractured realities
My Statement
After its invention photography was considered a threat by many, despised and feared as an affront to the “true creative process of painting”. It was presumed that representational painting would no longer be required and that it would become redundant. Instead painting continued to expand its potential.
I see the potential for the photographic to be affected in the same way by digital technologies. I consider this to be a superficial response that simply sees it as a straightforward replacement.
Rather than this my preference is to embrace it as a new medium with its own unique and distinctive qualities that can and should be explored
To consider it as merely a replacement renders it simply a technological copy. Engaging with the essential nature of the digital makes it dynamic and recognises that our creative sphere/paradigm constantly evolves presenting new possibilities within the modern visual experience.
Each of my portraits is partially rendered in fragments that are purely fortuitous yet there is a reference to cubism as well as structuralist film. What I choose to capture with these portraits reveals the fundamental characteristic of digital technology – the pixel - its intrinsic aesthetic which is what inspires me about these images.
In addition I am very aware of the sinister side to internet communication and social networking - being increasingly seen as the new human contact.
This work is a comment on the public image in the processes of social networking. The disintegration and pixilated blurrings in these portraits represent the unreality and fracturing that is an important reflection on our present reality.
After its invention photography was considered a threat by many, despised and feared as an affront to the “true creative process of painting”. It was presumed that representational painting would no longer be required and that it would become redundant. Instead painting continued to expand its potential.
I see the potential for the photographic to be affected in the same way by digital technologies. I consider this to be a superficial response that simply sees it as a straightforward replacement.
Rather than this my preference is to embrace it as a new medium with its own unique and distinctive qualities that can and should be explored
To consider it as merely a replacement renders it simply a technological copy. Engaging with the essential nature of the digital makes it dynamic and recognises that our creative sphere/paradigm constantly evolves presenting new possibilities within the modern visual experience.
Each of my portraits is partially rendered in fragments that are purely fortuitous yet there is a reference to cubism as well as structuralist film. What I choose to capture with these portraits reveals the fundamental characteristic of digital technology – the pixel - its intrinsic aesthetic which is what inspires me about these images.
In addition I am very aware of the sinister side to internet communication and social networking - being increasingly seen as the new human contact.
This work is a comment on the public image in the processes of social networking. The disintegration and pixilated blurrings in these portraits represent the unreality and fracturing that is an important reflection on our present reality.
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