"This Used to be a
Painting, and Before That, it was a Photograph"
October 2007
40 x 30 cm
oil on
canvas
This started out as a photograph of two young women
using a 1960s minicomputer. I cropped a random part out of it, then
printed it through a printer almost out of toner. I projected the
resulting streaky, messed-up image onto canvas, and painted over it as
realistically patiently, and carefully as I could. Then I scraped all
the paint off with a knife. Hints of red, green, and blue have been
added to refer back to the picture's origins. It's all about image
reproduction, traditional techniques, digital processing, and the
unreliability of technology.
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Painting, and Before That, it was a Photograph]](/_i/conceptual/this_used_to_be_a_painting.jpg)