pipes cropped

If it were my image I'd post it like this. It seems okay to take out the background, only because you can see the pucker marks. The material, or at least questioning the material, is important, but on screen the frame, shadow and wall don't mean much, and they relegate the image to the role of an inferior document of the work. I also applied a sharpen filter cause on screen, crisp is the norm.

I am very interested in this online territory between showing work as document versus a new form of the work itself. It's an awkward space but I think very rich. I agree with Chris Ashley that this 'painting' has connections to his/her html paintings. Chris, I notice you post 3d paintings along with your html constructed images. They look great together and I like the mental exercise that both of you are providing with these media switcheroos. Puts a real interesting focus on abstraction itself, relegating the metaphysical implications of paint technology to the sidelines without having to lose it altogether.


- sally mckay 9-06-2004 5:35 pm





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