Solo Exhibition, January 2016
George Gilmour Members Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
The Artifacts series investigates possibilities of depicting the human body in motion using one reprographic technology (3D scan) to capture a moment in time, executed in another (screen print). The images depicted portray glimpses of activities and gestures captured using a continuous 360 degree, 3D scan of a single motion. The resulting images reveal bodies in a liminal state - neither in their original position, nor having completed their transformation into another, but caught between moments, revealing a 3 dimensional, virtual trace of the activity.
The images reference early experiments in chrono‐photography by tracking the change in the body that occurs while engaged in a particular activity over a given length of time. Like a rolling shutter, the simultaneous movements of both scanner and body result in unexpected and unintended distortions. Created through an attempt to capture the passage of time through space, the resulting digital artifacts are lent sculptural form. 3D scans represent the most advanced phase of reprographic technology - photography and printmaking, too, form part of this history. Notions of materiality and embodiment become critical when considered in relation to the use of digital technology, as does the role of chance and its creative possibilities for the artist.