rephoto note

rephoto note

These two images were created recently as part of ongoing research. Images are selected for their iconic
power and then screwed up or otherwise degraded. Sometimes they are left to degrade outside where the weather is allowed to further alter the image prior to it being photographed. In some ways this type of work is harder than painting or drawing, one is forced to confront a previously made image and then somehow take it over and make it one's own. Currently I am imagining these images as prints on Somerset paper. I suppose also that the willed destruction of images of luxury is a form of vandalism, or the removal of one level of reality to be replaced with one further away from the original, which is quite  often a posed woman in a studio. This is followed by an appearance in a magazine, the magazine is bought and the image changed in sometimes quite an ad hoc manner and then photographed and represented as an artwork.