Plateau #5: Embrace Your Past Photograph - Limited Edition of 5

Photography/ Archival Pigment Print mounted on Dibond with wooden brace and cleave on back It is 32 x 40 inches (81.28 x 101.6 cm) Plateaus is an ongoing, non-linear series of abstract photographs. The Plateaus series reflects on a Sufi principle called “qayummia” which means creation in every moment. My process starts by drawing on a surface using gaffer tape, creating a new abstraction of that drawing through the compositional lens of the camera , creating another image through printing, and repeating this process until its last iteration is sealed through the use of a scanner. This work builds on the aesthetic and historical contexts of experimental filmmaking, minimalism, conceptualism, and repetition in Islamic geometric art. The tactile layering of instances within the photographs entices the senses despite the flatness of the surface, while the inclusion of intentional lens flares capture an ephemeral other worldly existence. Plateaus builds on a previous series called Drowning, a prior series of abstract works based in analog and digital processes. Like Plateaus, Drowning explores a process of combination and accumulation, the primary difference being that Drowning is a linear and generative series that utilized a camera instead of a digital scanner, which significantly shifted the scale and possibilities for Plateaus. Through cyclical and improvisational processes of construction and destruction, and the corresponding accumulation of marks and residues, these bodies of work pose questions about traditional relationships between abstraction and history while meditating on acts of archival preservation in the Black experience.

Photography:Digital on Aluminium

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5

Size:40 W x 32 H x 0.5 D in

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