Untitled (Ipoh street at night, 2/3/2010, photographed on Kodak E100VS 120mm. Selected with wax pencil. Rephotographed with iPhone in 2022 and printed on cotton rag. Sanded.)
Untitled (Ipoh street at night, 2/3/2010, photographed on Kodak E100VS 120mm. Selected with wax pencil. Rephotographed with iPhone in 2022 and printed on cotton rag. Sanded.)
2023
42x56cm
Archival pigment print (framed in wood and non-reflective UV glass)
This work is a hand-sanded print of a re-photographed medium format slide depicting a night scene on a street in Ipoh, Malaysia. The source photograph was made in 2010 by Tay, as part of the projectConvergence. The image depicts a lone moving human figure dissolving into the building behind it, next to a marking of a wax pencil, long used during the photo editing process. On the left half of the print, the printed image is manually sanded down so that the embedded trace of the ink and material of the substrate are made apparent. The decisive interruptions to the image, first with the earlier wax pencil marking, then with the removal of the image from the print, bring to attention the selection and context which further complicate the already layered notions and readings of the image and photography.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928)
is a black-and-white animated short film that is considered a landmark in animation history. The film stars Mickey Mouse in his first sound appearance and helped to usher in the era of synchronized sound cartoons. Steamboat Willie remains an iconic piece of popular culture today.
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 meishÅ (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.
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