Progressive Disintegrations

Untitled: Microscopic Images

Excerpt. Title: One half frame 135mm colour reversal film slide. “I-71” hand-written on Agfacolor-branded heatsealed cardboard slide mount. In Agfacolor-branded orange plastic slide box labelled “TITLE Perth people DATE Sept. ’70.” // 500x magnification. Full ring episcopic and transmitted illumination. Cropped. // Recording at 1080p of image in Keyence WHX_5000 digital microscope HD LCD monitor with Sony A7rii camera and 24-70mm G-Master lens. // 8 min HD colour video, stereo sound.

In these works, I photograph, compose, and re-imagine the slides with a microscope. The microscope digitally renders layers of plastic, organic material, dirt, and the represented image in the analogue photographic slide from three dimensional space into a two dimensional space. And in this way presents markers of history, time, nature in the photograph through its materiality, translocation, and temporal shifts. Included are 7 photo prints and 1 looped 8 min video. (The work was part of the first exhibition of Progressive Disintegrations - a collaboration between myself, Marc Gloede, Hilmi Johandi and Chua Chye Teck, at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film.

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Robert Norman "Bob" Ross(October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host.[1] He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that appeared on PBS in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Hasui Kawase(May 18, 1883 – November 7, 1957) was a prominent Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and one of the chief printmakers in the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement.

Kawase worked almost exclusively on landscape and townscape prints based on sketches he made in Tokyo and during travels around Japan. However, his prints are not merely meishō (famous places) prints that are typical of earlier ukiyo-e masters such as Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Kawase's prints feature locales that are tranquil and obscure in urbanizing Japan.

In 1923 there was a great earthquake in Japan that destroyed most of his artwork.

Alphonse Legros(8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon.

As he had casually picked up the art of etching by watching a comrade in Paris working at a commercial engraving, so he began the making of medals after a walk in the British Museum, studying the masterpieces of Pisanello, and a visit to the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris. Legros, considered the traditional journey to Italy a very important part of artistic training, and in order that his students should have the benefit of such study he devoted a part of his salary to augment the income available for a travelling studentship. His later works, after he resigned his professorship in 1892, were more in the free and ardent manner of his early days—imaginative landscapes, castles in Spain, and farms in Burgundy, etchings like the series of "The Triumph of Death," and the sculptured fountains for the gardens of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.