photo·pia (fō tō′pē ə)
The relationships with a found photographic composition and then re-compiling this as an image / object: meaning: the ‘left over exhibition advert’. Lock and key prevented me from accessing the actuality of this object – but I took the picture anyway: and I do indeed become increasingly aware of how it can be used as the beginning / end of an art piece and the re-construction of an environment. I will not give away its location – but it exists in the interim stage and most probably was cast aside by a technician, ready for the rubbish heap.
So I have photographically rescued it from the rubbish heap and kept its documented-sculptural form encased in archival existence.
Here comes the actual notion of its embellishment through digital edit. It is a digital edition of its former found functioning. It had a function but now does not have a function except in how I might see the forwarding of its found potential…
ANYWAY – half of that is rambling tosh – it is a nice image and does generate a good composition, enough for you to question how it has come to be and what it may have been before: this could well be obvious and self-explanatory to the exposed eye. But I like the concept of it being transformative through its re-ignition in photopia. After light has affected found-vision, perspective after probability and potential.
It also adds a certain element for enforcing reflection within the composition: making this reflection unequal delineates reasons for black, reasons for white and reasons for colourisation (for instance how important is colour as far as the object goes – is it there merely for the objects identification. And how much of this work is in its actual form, not its identity?)
