Torsion / REZ / indigo lacquer - Limited Edition of 4 Photograph

Torsion is a 3 panel C type photographic image, printed on Fuji metallic paper, and Diasec mounted between clear Plexiglass and DiBond. .. There’s an opportunity with digital tools to re-edit and re-process existing material, so around the time I drew Torsion, I was experimenting with the idea of multiply processing new drawings in a sequential or linear series, as opposed to a parallel process. Effectively creating an original study, and then using that as the basis for the next study, but taking it in a new direction, with each new sequence in the process adding a new twist, or complexity, to the work. I’d been reading about psychedelic typography, and the amazing Sister who had come up with the beautifully simple idea of painting her typographic forms onto rubber balloons, before blowing them up and then photographing the newly distorted typography to make her psychedelic poster art. Torsion effectively steals that idea, although I feel that it’s an idea that has come in from more than just one source. The idea for the drawing comes from a number of places, certainly natural forms like wheat or barley, but also from the modernist sculptural work of Walter Leblanc, and his idea that if you heat up a thin rectangular bar of steel, and torque one end through a number of rotations, whilst clamping the other end firmly, the resulting form will be a hugely satisfying candy twist of metal. So it is with Torsion, rectangular columns of individually tessellated components, each one containing a unique interior glazed detail, are partially torqued to form the final image. I made the final editions in a deep indigo glaze, and a silvery white variation, and in their larger REZ versions, the works tend to be cut into three equal panels, which I hope emphasises the sculptural nature of the drawings on the wall.

Multi-paneled Photography:C-type on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:4

Size:78.7 W x 94.5 H x 0.8 D in

Number of Panels:2

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