Well no comments yet, and there was I thinking that I might get picked up on the claim that blogging results in clarity. Not sure that the last post I nailed it, clarity, that is. This thing about the simulacrum is varied for me, as I am interested in how images work and how language works and how issues about ‘The Copy’ can be considered and how printmaking as a vehicle for production can be used to create images that will specifically address conditions that are recognised about our technological age and the deluge of images that we encounter. There, I think I got it, they are the broad aims and reference points.
Now to breaking it down. If an image is a copy, and a copy without an original, then the thing it is created from or with, may be from the world (discernibly a thing that pre-exists the final image) but may or may not contribute to forming the image in terms of being a referent. In other words The reference is possibly neither index or sign.
On the other hand some of my ideas are about sign and associations. The Tracing the Everyday series that I am still working on includes the use of things from the world, objects, to form the method of making the image. Earth Rising is the latest print run finished and now dry the limited series has variations because of the method, as well as a constant overall representation. The doyley associates domesticity against the remoteness of space travel. The whole series has a divergent aspect, and readings create a certain uncertainty.
The second image shows artists proofs in this case proof of the difficulty of using these kinds of making fragments, proof of error in this case. But the difficulty helped in terms of distribution to create the unstable moon surface. I like the uncertainty that means resolving the ideas and image is only concluded at the end.
