Eva K. Sutton: Disintegration #13
Artist(s):
Title:
- Disintegration #13
Exhibition:
Creation Year:
- 1990
Medium:
- Photographic print
Size:
- 36 x 40
Category:
Technical Information:
Hardware: PC-compatible, Howtek scanner, Apple Macintosh, Sun 3, Dunn film recorder.
Software: Lumena, Adobe Photoshop, written by the artist.
Other Information:
By appropriating imagery from photographs (primarily old prints found in junk shops, flea markets and garbage bins) and recombining these images (by computer), I create a kind of a digital photo-montage. Relying on the nearly seamless quality with which the computer can mix or overlay images and because of the historical verisimilitude which photographs possess, the works exist as falsely constructed historical relics. The purpose of such a relic is to invite the viewer into “trusting” the image with feelings of familiarity and nostalgia, while simultaneously subverting these feelings by presenting elements in juxtapositions that may be perceived as uncomfortable or ambiguous. Various computer systems were used to “build up” a composite of multiple images. Source material was scanned into a PC running Lumena paint program using a flatbed scanner. Images were digitally overlaid within Lumena to create the resulting composite. The composite was then subjected to various image processing filters on the PC, a Mac II (primarily using Photoshop software) and a Sun 3 workstation (using software written by the artist) to achieve the final result. Images are then output to a film recorder onto 8 x 10 b/w sheet film.