Layers of "weather" were layered over the surface. You can see remants of the original image underneath . Three areas of the original were left unchanged (upper left, lower left and lower right). Those parts were cut out of the original and bonded with the digital print.
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This was the original painting from which Interior Decorating I was derived -- a conglomeration of paint, materials and detritus. A photograph of this painting was manipulated in the computer. INTERIOR DECORATING I
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With Interior Decorating, I dove into the possibilities of computer manipulation. I was mesmerized by the interface between physical and digital material. I had bumped into a technique for creating illusions: bewildements between materials and their photographic representation. I began to feel that the relationship between working in the computer and working with physical materials could work as a metaphor for the ever curious relationship between mind and world. By photographing the physical object and then taking the image into the computer I could essentially engage in the sort of processing that we do on our sensory data. I could mimic the manipulation inherent in building a cohesive world view and/or illusion.
Oddly(and perhaps fittingly), this activity turned out to be peculiarly compulsive. I worked and reworked what was essentially the same image for over a year. Concerned friends began to talk about an "intervention". But isn't this what we do when driven to have the world a certain way? This was not the relaxed apprehension of the parts to the whole whereby Venus could be formed of mud, bit an idee fixe.
As the sound of a thunderclap is instantaneously incorporated into a dream, so objective and projected worlds interact and combine.
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