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exploratory | collage
postcards
Mementos of past experiences, the constructed illusions created by postcards speak very little about the actual places they represent. cropped and composed as if for the cover of vogue, the city is depicted in its ultimate airbrushed state of superficiality. “The ordinary practitioners of the city live “down below”, below the thresholds at which visibility begins. they walk – an elementary form of this experience of the city; they are walkers, whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban “text” they write without being able to read it. These practitioners make use of spaces that cannot be seen; their knowledge of them is as blind as that of lovers in each others arms. It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by their blindness... in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.”
[michael de certeau, walking in the city. 1984]
mixed media photo collages
black and white chemical prints and digital photo editing
newspaper
According to semiotics theory, the newspaper is a special kind of text called syntax – a text that imparts the illusion of connectivity and coherence among fragmented and random information. by organizing it into neatly divided rubrics, the newspaper syntax superimposes a logical structure to the things that make up everyday life. newspapers provide reassurance that there is a single purpose to things. the newspaper is as much a source of mass distraction as it is a source of social consciousness and awareness. Source: Marcel Danesi, Understanding Media Semiotics.
subvert the norm collage
cut and past newspaper clippings and glue
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