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Untitled (For Names Sake), Inkjet Print. 2011

This print and two others will be on display this Friday the 25th of March at the Art Bank Vancouver for a one night co-op show entitled A Pretty Shitty City.
Curated by the fabulous Golboo Amani.

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I have this love hate relationship with the low-fi revolution that has been popularized everywhere, from visual to audio. I realize that part of this is nostalgia and part of it is that we as a society are scared to give in fully to the overwhelming coldness of an entirely digital existence. I guess that we have come full circle, past generations had less remove from the original source than today. Sure Walter Benjamin stated that the original was so far removed from its source that it lost its power, But I think that now the original has become more elevated for its "purity" "nuance" whatever you want to call it. For instance these photos. They have come so far from the analogue source that one could say what is the point of shooting film in the first place when you are going to scan, edit, reformat, upload, copy, paste etc.


For me it's in the action and the product, somehow not being privy to an instant preview makes image making more enjoyable. That being said how far gone is the source and does it matter in the first place if we are just going to look at the world through a digitized filter. I think that we desire the lack of control, to have something imperfect and one of a kind has trumped our fascination with the proliferation of the image. I buy into it too the fact that I can make something that is and never will be reproducible in its analogue format. So I still love the flexibility to manipulate and tweak things...that's human nature maybe..but I still have love for the chaos of the light sensitive chemical process that renders the world imperfect, skewed, and off kilter. It's closer to the truth that digital media has tried to make us forget...Life isn't perfect

Some older work and reincarnations of it.

Breath, 2007 - back lit transparency



It always seems to me that after about 6months of not looking at something I ether become hypercritical of it or pick up on the thread that is left as a starting point for the next thing.
These photos are the progression/regression of my work. It all started with this photo I guess..I will post some of the original photos from that shoot.
















Untitled Light Box I &II , 2010

That one image has stuck in my head and I guess has come out in parts of everything I have done. It's strange to think that after three years of fighting this image, I returned to it for my grad piece. These were the last thing that I would have imagined to produce for my final pieces...had you asked I would have said that a painting would be my grad piece.














Sketch for Downtown, 2011 Digital Collage

This is what one of these things looks like on screen...It's quite a different thing to behold when it is printed and back lit. The colors become much more desaturated with the light spilling out. The layers of these images comes across much better in the boxes because of the printing and positioning of the sheets in the boxes.
















Sketch for Main St, 2011 Digital Collage

My most optimistic goal for these would be installations in transit shelters or some other form of site specific locale which invites contemplation of the individual within the built environment. I was told by a friend the other day that someone had put up photos in the pedestrian underpass at the Granville Loop. I took pictures and was happy to see that I am not the only one on this string of thought. I want to find the person/s that installed this and do a collaboration.
















Unknown Installation 2011
Granville and 5th ave. Pedestrian
underpass....ECU kids probably.

Hartford Glass