Sunday 24 April 2011

Photogram of a skeleton





I am exploting ways of incorporating photographic processes with etching. Photograms provide a different language to that of drawing as a means of representation, I combine processes that refer to the represented differently. In the photogram there is a real contact between the object and the image, and it's silhouette fixed through the shadow. Here there are human remains, and it seems perverse to loose the realness, to dehumanize them in the process of representation (objectification). Somehow the photogram attempts to respect its dignity.