USELESS 1-18 November 2011 A discarded bottle, the plethora of photographs on the Internet, and forgotten flora. Oliver McKenzie, Ben Norris, and Chris Ross engage with the so-called ‘useless’ objects in contemporary life. Often such detritus is the by-product of the circulation of images and objects. It seems an object easily becomes redundant either due…
Regardless of correctness, I do like those quotes which seek to define the world in one paragraph, and underpin large complex things, through attribution to a simple combination of things. I grabbed the below quote mainly to store on the blog, as it relates to the current exhibition and my current thinking and exploration in…
As a side project I have been producing many spontaneous small drawings, usually of abstract structures, networks, wireframes, or whatever. For the sheer enjoyment of drawing and especially the way that a good marker (like TRIA markers) glides over the glossy surface of ink-jet photo paper. The paper immediately registers a dense and sharp black, as if…
This first image above is my creation and yet such an attribution of authorship and control is deceptive. Rather, this is an image that is a kind of averaging of 6 differently executed drawings, paintings and a photograph. Using Adobe Photoshop it was generated by the multiplication of the black values of seven layers of these approximately…