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This slideshow includes the following.Image on Image I – a B&W photo essay.
These images were developed over 2 sessions with life model . The initial photo shoot session B&W film was reverse process developed to produce B&W slides. In the final photo shoot, the original slides were projected on to the same model and photographed. The results are these ambiguous images of the figure projected over the figure.Image on image II- the Marnie Lisa series
Once again 2 photo shoots took place with 2 models.Session 1 produced B&W portraits that were solarised using darkroom wet photography.Session 2 shot with colour slide film.A montage of the solarised portraits was made and utilised as a screen on which to project the colour slides.
Solarised portrait montage for slide projection background.
This montage was used as a screen onto which colour slides were projected and photographed.
The final works…
1997 – Hobart, was the 4th manifestation of the image on image concept that involved an antique printing press covered with prints of various types including etchings, serigraphs and monoprints. AS support to the installation a handmade box contained a variety of documentation including t-shirts, postcards, video and more.
Image on Image
Taking the image through a number of processes/mediums not only explores how different marks are read, but also signifies the changing levels of human consciousness.
Just as an icon becomes a visual synecdoche for a whole value system. so to the overloading of an image ad infinitum becomes a synecdoche for the simple units comprising that same whole value system.
In this way, the multiple “PRESS” images impacted on the press it’s self (it’s physical being) becomes a visual synecdoche for the print, and, as such, metonym of the printer (or self) as other …. as in artist as other.
The continual searching through the meaning of various print media, the subversions and reclaimations of traditional aesthetics becomes metaphor for the searching through various layers of ‘self’. or … looking for the meaning of life. or … searching for truth.
There has been much discourse over centuries about the hierarchy within art that has done little to answer the question of truth. So, I can only surmise that it is about the journey rather than the arrival. In-fact I would go so far as to say that ‘truth’ is indeed subjective. ……. that the meaning of life is what you make it!.
Fractal geometry describes chaos. The fractal has become part of digital technology. It s used to compress large files and build renderings of terrain. It is used to make predictions that have a high element of chaos. e.g.. long term weather forecasts. A fractal never looses detail, the part is as the whole. Fractal geometry describes infinity better than science can fathom, in that scientists have described the smallest possible unit but fractals do not recognise this phenomena.
Ken Ford Art. 