The Poor Image - Project #1
The Poor Image - Project #1 / Part 1
Edit: I actually found the term for this type of art, it’s called “rollage” and it’s a collaging technique. If you’re interested and would like to learn more about it, click the link on the word “rollage” below. The website will take you to an artist who goes by “Colleen Hammond that uses the rollage technique in her collaging. Cool stuff!
Below are linked photos of my process for the "poor image" project.
My Project responds to Hito Steyerl's idea of the "poor image" which she describes as an image that has been "uploaded, downloaded, shared, reformatted and reedited," where quality is traded over quantity. I began my process for this project with one image of a wiener dog and duplicated it into four images through a process called "rollage" which is a technique of art, similar to collage, where images are cut into strips or shapes and rearranged to create a new, distorted composition of an image. I started my hands-on process by printing the image of the wiener dog, cutting it vertically into sixteen 1 cm strips and rearranging them to create two new images placed and glued side by side. After I scanned those, I repeated the process horizontally, cutting the images into sixteen 1 cm strips again and rearranging them into four images. Through this experimental, repetitive process, the image moves further away from a single, original image, reflecting Steyerl's idea that the "poor image is an illicit fifth-generation bastard of an original image." The image no longer feels "perfect," but changeable and shaped by how it is reused and rearranged. As the image is copied and reformatted, it starts to break down and become more abstract which also connects to Steyerl's idea that "the poor image tends towards abstraction: it is a visual idea in its very becoming." Instead of only putting my focus towards the original image, I look at how the image changes through repetition and reformation, where meaning comes from change and circulation rather than the visual quality of the image.
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