signals III
2022
2022
giclée prints
50 x 50 cm
50 x 50 cm
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the thing is, i guess, if you start out with the belief that at all images are equally relevant, unique, poetic, then no matter how much you transform, reduce and destroy, there will always be the idea inside, that a signal can be found, perhaps a seed, or really a transmission, hidden in plain sight in our pixels.
often the process simply reduces the image to a field of noise, but this in itself can be seen as a signal or a symbol, who are we to decide?
the abstract doesn't have a size, it's not measured in cm. should it be tiny to our eyes or as a big as a continent? big enough to see the details, all the tiny sparks.
i'm not sure about explaining any more, the process isn't that interesting, after all. but occasionally an image happens that refuses to be reduced further, as if it's unbreakable. I suppose that this is like what the alchemists felt when they made their recipes of the unconscious, hundreds of years ago, looking for mysterious truths in simple matter, and believing them to be pathways to a state that would reconcile their souls.
