Alex Davidson
Maybe you could say that in terms of space, all photographs have two, distinct existences. There is the former, and often distant space one is invited to enter into; the pictorial space that once was real, and now is an image. And then afterwards, there is the space they occupy physically in the real, tangible world, usually like piece of paper - slight and thin - but that once again takes up physical space.
I want to work with objects and images. I want to create relations between an object and an image that can highlight the displacement between the image and the object. In other words, draw the focus to the distance between the pictorial space (photograph) and the real space (the object physically present to the viewer). I want to do this by creating an echo, a repetition, or a kind of connection between what is present physically, and what can be seen in the image. So in a sense, bringing the object and the image together with a balance and an agreement, and a sense of dependency on one another.
Hey Alex, I was thinking about your idea of reading a difficult text and taking small parts of understanding out, something we can probably all relate to. In the other meeting you said you were interested in architecture, do you ever look at the built environment in that way? Once I checked out a flat on Upper Queen Street that was advertised as having two stories and two bathrooms; as it appeared in the photo on trademe. When we got there, the stairs lead up to a wall with no door, and the two bathrooms were really just one with a divider wall. I don't know what they were thinking, maybe they expected somebody to just use the 'buy-now' option based on the image... it seemed that balance and agreement was what the image and physical space really needed, dependency on one another was neglected and upon viewing the two, so was the viewer in a way. Any way there are these two architects which deal with the displacement of space and image and also look how both of these can be occupied. there's a book on them at the architecture library that's really interesting:
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