User:Tiffin
The film starts with the word SCREAM overlaid on footage of a games
platform. The text used is out moded and placed in the middle of the shot, with
letters following a yellow to pink gradient from top to bottom. The sound is
ambient and house music plays from the surrounding area. The camera moves
slowly up from being oriented towards the ground . The location that is revealed
is a game platform with an actor who is shooting a gun towards plastic chips
fastened to a wall. This shot continues for 3 minutes and then the shot switches
to a masked person walking through a crowd.
This work is a series of digital images of type written letters on notebook paper.
The letters are typed with black ink in typewriter courrier font. Hand drawn
redactions and drawings overlay the text. The redactions that occur in black ink
over the text take the form of insect like shapes that edit certain words of the
letter. Each letter contains various personal and prosaic information that the
writer is sending to the recipient. At the bottom of each letter there is a number
in the place where the signature or identity of the writer would be . This number
is typed in brackets.
The painting is 10 x 6 feet and is tacked to the walls using nails at the top of the
canvas. The canvas hangs loose on the wall and is not attached to a stretcher.
The edges have a 4 inch hem on the top, left and right side but not on the bottom.
The ground of the painting is a washy grey with many forms overlaying the
ground. The forms within the work occur as ameoba like, circular and linear
while following a compositional logic. The colour in forms varies from dark
muddy browns to orange, royal blue, white, purple and green. Textural elements
of the work are enhanced through the use of pastel and oil bar.
What
This work is a series of 36 ink portraits mounted to a wall in grid arrangement of 6 X 6. Each portrait is on a piece of 8 x !4 white paper and mounted with no visible fastening device. Every portrait consists of a human figure from the neck up with a word written in various orientation on each paper. Some portraits have ink wash as a background with more graphic lines over top while others have a blank ground or wash borders varying in saturation with line brushwork of the figure overtop. All portraits are executed in black ink with varying levels of saturation.
How
Each portrait is painted with a brush with little variation in thickness of line and texture, making them considerable as drawings. The method of the artist was to start with a word or name and then continue the portrait based on the name. This makes it conceptual. The figures vary in race and sex. Sometimes the names seem suited to the sex and sometimes the names aren’t even names at all but ideas of a word association to the type of person that that person may be.
Why
The reason why these portraits were executed was that the artist had an idea to convey content and form to a viewer. The artist wished to further his technical abilities as a portrait artist and wanted to use ink as a way of practicing. The reason why these were not done in another medium was due to economic circumstances (the price of material) and therefore these portraits can be read as evidence of social status within collective society. These portraits were