Underneath #10 - Limited Edition of 1 Photograph

Underneath #10 is part of my latest wet plate collodion photographic series Underneath. This image is created from 35 Tintype plates. The full size of the image is 77cm x 75cm. The art work comes in the box with 35 tintype plates that you can easily attached to the wall by peeling off a protective sheet from the back side of the plate to stick it to any surface ( ones you piled the sheet at the back that side of the plate has a glue emulsion on it ) or taking it to the framing shop and have a nice frame put around, its up to you. Tintype plates are signed by metal stamp engraved into plate, sometimes i would scan my plates before i do engraving so you might not see it in digital file but physical art work is always engraved as proof of my work. The wet plate collodion is 19th century photographic process. It was in use at the time of American Civil War and it was a fairly complicated procedure. Whether making positives or negatives, from the time the plate is coated with collodion to the development, the collodion must remain wet or the plate loses sensitivity, you have around 10 minutes otherwise the plate starts drying off, when you work on the location in the hot weather as you can imagine you would get less then 10 minutes. A positive image on aluminium called tintype or ferrotype. For me tintype is unique because the plate that you see on the wall in a gallery it is the same plate that was in the camera, there is no negative, there is only one image its almost like a painting. I like to push it even further by hand colouring my plates, or scratch it, or pinching a text on the plate by using a metal letter stamps and hummer. Please visit my website https://www.zelkonedic.com to explore more of experimental work with wet plate collodion process. Underneath represents the whole but also the parts. The whole of one persons reality in time and space and my re-configuration of it. I have no images from my past reality, they were destroyed during the Yugoslavian civil war. I create meaning in the view of others, a view that resonates with me, that makes sense. The reality is projected, which is why I project it in Underneath. We all project, both our reality and the reality of others. Again it’s how we make sense of our objects and our surround. Each image is fanciful - some majestic some pedestrian, like the collective moments in our lives. Notably, postmodernisms' apparent authenticity never existed, and all art including photography never depicted reality; only an idea of reality. Please note: In context pictures are not necessarily to scale and are for illustrative purposes only. If you have any questions about this artwork or any other piece, contact me and i will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you very much for taking an interest in my work it means a lot to me. Underneath is the re-photographing of slides (reversal film). I am in this narrative showing holiday snaps from 1960s. I’m projecting conventional notions of originality and playing with the glorification of authenticity and authorship - because as I see it, nether is tangible. I am engaging in a regenerative act of collaboration, transforming someone else records and memories into something “whole” and continually knowable. Through re-photographing the images via a 19th century photographic process: wet plate collodion. I’m repositioning the forms and someone else’s vision by giving it a new meaning - in new context. It provides for possibility but also the significance of projected reality - projecting it as the surround, I'm asking the viewer to be not only the subject but also the object. ​Photography, is both a reflection and a manipulation of reality, and therefore viewed and judged by that vision. To say that photographs depict the truth is not correct. What they actually depict are slices of life selected and framed by the protagonist.

Photography:Metal on Aluminium

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30.3 W x 21.6 H x 1.5 D in

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