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Grommets Who Surf The Land.

For this assignment I wanted to capture the young surfers of the land. This work was shot on 35mm film, in the Bondi skatepark. These photographs express who I wished I was as a young surfer. These images aim to portray an insight into the lives of the young “grommets” who inhabit the beach, all hours outside of school.

All photos used for final assignment, however finals were cut down to 2 images after consideration.

Final display and images used in assignment 3

Final image. Shot on 35mm film, olympus OM-1. Portra 400 film

La Fontelina, Capri, Italy

Shipping details sending from Sydney, Aus to NYC to Matthews home address. This is the final stage in sending the image viral, from digital message to tangible photo, packaged in a tube and stamped with shipping information. This process of guiding the postal company/ instructing as to where and how the image should be specifically transferred interested me as it was initially a mere coincidence that the subject was spread viral via digital and social media, not as a negative/ scan.

In order to turn this digitally viral image into a physically, tangible viral artwork I printed 2 fine art prints onto canson 320GSM paper and offered to send 2 copies to Matthew in New York, who was the man who located himself in my image via social media. This conversation tracks the journey and information required from him in order to physically hand over/ ship the image across the world.

Original screenshots of conversation after image was released on social media. Instagram was used in order to reach a wide audience and the digital scan of the negative was posted in order to gain most attraction. Screenshots of conversation between myself and Matthew reveal the first step in my photograph beginning its viral journey

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FINAL IMAGES

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Final images used for manipulation

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Photography Experiments ::

Landscape backgrounds to be used for collaging with objects

:: we chose the Bondi Costal Walk for its dramatic landscape and scene scape where ambiguity can be found and created through horizons, water reflections and cliff faces ::

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Looking at balance and surreal images.

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Fischli & Weiss: Drawing inspiration from objects, space, the “now” and balance.

Peter Fischli, David Weiss Equilibres / Quiet Afternoon Approx. 40 photographs, exhibition copies 300 x 400 mm

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Inspiration ::

Futuristic Collages :: Eugenia Loli

http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/7653/futuristic-collages

Final Series of photographs to document my work.

‘BILL POSTERS WILL BE PROSECUTED’

concrete, collected bill posters

70 x 60 x 35cm

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Artist statement

‘BILL POSTERS WILL BE PROSECUTED’

Concrete, Collected Bill Posters

70 x 60 x 35

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Bill ads, posters and advertisements cover our city, creating ephemeral fixtures that are visible throughout our streets- a frequent tool of advertising propaganda. These man-made adverts cover our light polls, being removed, replaced and disposed of week after week on the streets of Sydney. These posters flood our societies eyes. An exploration of our relationship with our societal ecology is expressed through the embedding of commonly visible texts types and graphical designs implanted and cast into a seemingly industrial banal concrete setting. Inspired by Will Coles practice of gluing banal text based objects throughout the city by using the streets as a canvas, my initial performance art of intentionally physically erasing propaganda from society challenges social norms through intentionally destroying established scenes that are engrained in our culture. The artworks tombstone-like sculpture provides a commentary on modern society referencing issues such as consumerism, socio-political excessivism and environmental destruction.

A large collection of paper posters & advertisements are gathered by the artist directly from the streets of Sydney over a period of time through the process of gently removing layers and dissecting sheets of time from sites’ scaffoldings, concrete structure poles and lamp posts. Each individual bill poster collected by the artist is intentionally torn in natural gestures then layered to create a patchwork piece, each representing different moments in time. After layering and pasting each poster on top of the other, the top layers are slowly and gently peeled back in a gestural form to reveal both advertising texts and images that promote events, fashion sales, musical/dj events and local cultural festivals. The material choice of concrete was inspired by American artist Letha Wilson who merges the natural and industrial world through creating beautiful photo-sculptures using C-prints, concrete and photographic emulsion transfers. After personally collating the adverts and creating small-scale layered posters, a mixed-media sculptural form is constructed using an organically poured concrete casting, masking archival layered bill posters which are only revealed once set and physically flipped/reversed, revealing hollow craters on the underside that naturally form over time. Through this specific practice and the associated techniques involved, an experimental time-based work focusing on the notion of the unknown is explored. Through investigating new materials, I determined the most efficient manner in which to cast concrete forms through using galvanized form mesh reinforced concrete with timber framework along with oil & black plastic as a lubricating release agent. Cement is hydraulic; water allows it to gain strength. To gain strength and harden fully, concrete curing requires time, however complete strengthening continues for decades.

Through exploring the inspiring concrete and pigment based works of Norwegian born artist Magnus Pettersen I grew an interest in the eternalness and fragility of concrete as an industrial material, specifically inspired by the chemical process of powdered form into indestructible matter. Through experimenting with the material and by concealing and casting the remains of expired adverts into a concrete tomb, the audience is left to experience a discarded consumerism based society, physically set in concrete. The artwork intends to examine the contrast between the overpowering ephemeral notion of consumerism & time based mass-advertising and the physical permanence of industrialism within our ecology.

The intentional anti-vandalist performance act of repurposing, recycling and redefining in ‘BILL POSTERS WILL BE PROSECUTED’ subversively evokes the human interactions with the urban landscape. Through routinely roaming the streets of Sydney, each poster is individually and judiciously removed from its pre-existing setting, un-strangling it from the destructive tape then re-set into a concrete form.

Erasing or silencing the colorful confusion of information portrayed through both image and text, the graphical artwork presents a collection of societal artefacts —revealing an eye opening insight into the typically oversaturated metropolitan environment we live in.

Bibliography

http://higherpictures.com/artists/letha-wilson/

http://www.lethaprojects.com

http://willcoles.com

http://www.widewalls.ch/excessivism-art-movement/

http://www.minervasydney.com/witness/

http://moussemagazine.it/magnus-pettersen-peter-amby/

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