As Symbol & Concept

Looking speculatively into Andre Bazin’s theory  The Ontology of the Photographic Image, As Symbol & Concept seeks to exemplify the fraught relationship between representation, perception, and the meanings generated by their tension.

Here, limitation becomes amplification. Using a restricted palette of achromatic mediums, As Symbol & Concept composes the material distinctions of charcoal, graphite, and oil mediums to evince their physical relationships to light, opactiy, and texture.


By transmuting the fixedness of a photographic referent to resurrect the spatial variability flattened in its mechanical process of capture, As Symbol & Concept aims to hold open the shutter, capturing, at once, the indexical past and the spatial present.

 

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