Camera Lucida...Roland Barthes...(detail) book tracing in 2B graphite pencil:2016
Apart from other fragments of experience 'fable in brief' also explores an interest in the photographic image...mostly through the very simple method of transferring a photographic image with the use of acetone rubbed on the back of a laser printed image then having pressure applied either by hand or with the use of an etching press...essentially exploring/questioning the relationship between the photographic/the mechanical and the hand drawn/the human...which has the capacity for the most compelling response?...the context and image type seems to hold sway over such questions...indirectly connected is this tracing of Roland Barthes poetic reflections on the photographic image in his 1980 book Camera Lucida...one of the first pieces I started for this show...commenced simply with the desire to trace objects/images that already existed...creative responses that didn't require any conscious or self-conscious manipulation...there is an understated element of excess in this response that perhaps makes this one of my favourite works...there is also the fixed yet transparent element of time. The final artist talk is this Saturday 3rd.Sept. from 10.30 am in the Queensland College of Art Project Gallery, Grey Street, South Bank.
Camera Lucida...Roland Barthes...(detail) book tracing in 2B graphite pencil:2016
your work reminds me of the magic in developing a silver gelatin print in the dark room, that moment when the image starts to materialize
ReplyDeleteAnother stunning piece, Glen. If you are able to teach for me again...could you email me on mail@fibrearts.net.au. Pleeeease? Glenys
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