Federal Reserve Building viewed from Constitution Gardens   Constitution Gardens near Federal Reserve Building, Washington DC, 2/21/14, 1:02:27 PM, 2015, cut and mounted digital pigment print

 

One of the lesser known structures on the mall in Washington D.C. is the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, seen here through leafless trees from a man-made pond in Constitution Gardens.

Without the title, the best a viewer can hope for is a generalized sense of the time and place. Clues exist in the objects depicted as well as in the method of reproduction and signs of aging of the print itself.

A vague sense of time and place may be subjectively intuited by a given viewer. The drastic alterations in this image that is all at once photograph, painting and sculpture weaken the bond between photograph and its referent, allowing the viewer to focus on their subjective response.

 

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  Target   LEFT: Target, 2015, mixed media

 

This abstract painting starts with photographic material inkjet printed onto paper. The photographic material consists of various street scenes, some of which are shown in Target Triptych to the right.

In this abstraction, the photograph (not its subject matter) has become the target.

 

RIGHT: Target Triptych, 2015, digital pigment print

Three photographs shot in sequence within a few seconds of each other are combined in Target Triptych. This sequence is comparable to a movie scene in which a character is being observed through the sight of a rifle.

 

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  Target Triptych, Detail 1   Target Triptych, Detail 1   Target Triptych, Detail 1

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