Vertiges. Limited edition of 8 screenprints on paper.

2023

In my current framework of exploring dislocated images, I have stumbled on a new source of visual disturbance. After dissolving images into lights and other effects (or defects), overlaying and offsetting images, what if the source material was already distorted? Damaged photos, out of focus images or sceneries trapped in motion blur, there are many ways photos that we take fail to capture a moment, or communicate an emotion, an idea- or at the very least, where the arrested image is not the one we expected, where disturbance run frequencies on the communication, encoding or affecting the message.

This image captured a snapshot of a room reeling, ceilings and walls closing in, the light from the lamps and windows tracing patterns on the retina, movement arrested as it spins out of control. The CMYK separation then, simply dissected this frozen movement and rebuilt it, the dots of the halftones acting like a fractal for the curves of the motion.

This image has no up or down, left or right, right or wrong. Every direction is dizzying, with nothing to anchor the gaze on, no perspective to orient ourselves on, no ground on which to lean. We reel and fall, spin and dance along with the image.