fragments

Fragmented images...the printing lately has been on glass---to float the forms and to emphasize the transparency of the forms.
All based on the textures of weathered architectural structures and the layers that emerge with a closer look.

I have recently been thinking a lot about archaeological methods and reading a book called "Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past" by Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas which deals with various levels of archaeological process and discourse in relation to contemporary society. I am particularly drawn to the "garbage paradigm" project by William Rathje and also to this blurb coming from a discussion on the abject within ch.1. Sheds some light on my interest in digging up layers and the emergence of fragments in imagery...

a quote from the work of Michael Shanks:
"The excremental culture of archaeology, which may wish to avoid the nausea of loss and an absent past, finds gratification in a purifying perhaps neurotic desire to hold on and to order. It is allied with the marginalization of feeling and of heterogeniety, the irreducible otherness of the past' (Shanks 1992: 75).
p.11


The starting photos from detroit eastside...
The aftermath on glass....more to come.