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THESE MODERN PALIMPSESTS
PROVIDE THE STARTING POINT
A FRAMEWORK OF INFORMATION DETERIORATED
INTO ABSTRATION
FROM WHICH TO
DISTILL A NEW VISUAL STATEMENT
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THESE MODERN PALIMPSESTS
PROVIDE THE STARTING POINT
A FRAMEWORK OF INFORMATION DETERIORATED
INTO ABSTRATION
FROM WHICH TO
DISTILL A NEW VISUAL STATEMENT
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ABSTRACTION is a series of photographs taken from torn and peeling advertising posters of New York City Subway platforms. They are pasted one on top of another and as the underlying layers are revealed through their deterioration, the abstract compositions reveal themselves as a point in the process of decay. The images are then digitally enhanced to articulate individual characteristics and distill a new, more vivid and unique visual statement.
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Drawing on the social context of advertising and the temporal nature of the cycle of the decay and renewal of the posters themselves, the series is meant to reflect somewhat, our relationship to our own social history. Groups of people, stratified by culture, class, race and experience, hold unto their specific communities, memories of a shared past. Some of these sets of memories overlap, some are obscured by others, while eventually they all will be at least partially replaced by the notions and ideas of a new generation. How will the collective memories of the past influence the composition of the future? ABSTRACTION seeks to visualize this concept and invites the viewer to parse the layers of color and texture and investigate their varied morphologies.
