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Composite
Bamboo Forest
2004
paper,
cardboard, mixed media, approximately 7' high, dimensions variable
Using
low resolution jpg images downloaded from the internet, I distorted
images of bamboo so they created wrappers for cardboard tubes.
A simple image search revealed numerous different depictions of
bamboo: forests, individual plants, close-up images, and a range
of textures. The resulting "composite forest" is a physical
manifestation of bamboo as it exists online and, essentially,
in the public imagination. The stretched and distorted images
create what look like a warping of space, with the digital quality
of the low-resolution images becoming enhanced and abstracted.
This
work is part of a larger series in which I am "searching
for the Phillipines"--my place of birth, and from which I
am culturally removed from--and attempting to find it via the
internet and at a distance.
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