INHERITANCE (2010-2012)
Inheritance employs paired down techniques for capturing imagery with immediacy. This is another books that offers a meditation on painting without making painting. The images included here were taken between 2007-2012, using a flip-phone camera. The aberrations created by the low-quality lens and the slower processor onboard such devices have created their own aesthetic of deficiency. Often, as we know, a random variable can appear (which we name luck, serendipity or chance). In this case, the resulting images contain such strong allusions to romantic landscape paintings of the C.17-C.19th that the association cannot be allowed to drift. The images used purposefully propose some sort of narrative, ranging through representation through different aestheic lenses, abstraction through tight detail and blatantly - crudely - of sexualized imagery. All of which are present in paintings we valorize.
While tying these images to the trajectory of 'history painting' and connoting that baggage, one cannot avoid the large pixellated areas of the images. I deny any intervention in the image, including transcription: when making such work, I want the technical deficiencies in the work to remain integral, much as they are in so much painting - and then can be reified as a new area of aestheic value. Therefore there is no cropping, cleaning or color correcting in these images; they also remain at their original pixel dimensions, meaning that, much like a found object, the physical scale of the work is already predisposed, and any increase in dimension reinforces the intetions stated above, and requires that the images be viewed from greater distances in order to be ‘read’.
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2007-2012 (printed 2012)
148 pages
