graphite & putty eraser/20x30cm
original source: 'The Guardian' 07/11/08
And so, once again, to games of various levels of reproduction & representation, & the time-honoured tradition of pictures-within-pictures, as engaged with now on numerous occasions during the curse of The Project, & an additional coincidental reference in this instance to the recent series of drawings processed from examples of Warhol’s Polaroid photographs.
The nature of the image in the photo-within-the-photo, with its subtle(ish) change of scale down from the facial feature it serves to conceal, put me in mind, as another vague point of reference, of David Hockney’s fascinating photo collages, composed of various close-up details of the overall image (also including landscapes, interiors & still lifes in addition to such an example of his portraiture) which replicate, in Cubist fashion, more immediately the act of seeing, in edited sequence of related fragments of detail, in the three-dimensional space of the empirical world.
David Hockney 'Mother 1, Yorkshire Moors, August 1985'
photo collage
Soundtrack:
Moon Wiring Club 'Shoes Off and Chairs Away'
Boards of Canada 'Twoism' & 'Hi Scores'
Sigur Ros 'Takk'
Tori Amos 'Boys For Pele'
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