Pompeiian Inversions
Fotografia Digitale, Paesaggio, 25x25x3cm
The starting point for Pompeian Inversions 2011 was a postcard from Pompeii; the cast form of a figure from the eruption of AD 79. The piece exists as a series of black and white pinhole photographs made by photographing and re-photographing each ensuing image.
The repetitive act of reproduction, from positive to negative to positive, corrupts each successive image, which is further degraded by a layer of ash placed on each photograph. The ash, evidence of the material world, and an echo of the eruption that destroyed Pompeii, is both object and image, becoming both creator and destroyer.
Each print is housed in an archive box. Some will be open, but most are closed, revealing a selection to be viewed at anyone time, never the whole series. The configuration of the piece is changeable, depending on the space, and can be re-figured over the duration of an exhibition.
The repetitive act of reproduction, from positive to negative to positive, corrupts each successive image, which is further degraded by a layer of ash placed on each photograph. The ash, evidence of the material world, and an echo of the eruption that destroyed Pompeii, is both object and image, becoming both creator and destroyer.
Each print is housed in an archive box. Some will be open, but most are closed, revealing a selection to be viewed at anyone time, never the whole series. The configuration of the piece is changeable, depending on the space, and can be re-figured over the duration of an exhibition.
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