Neon Vintage
drawing-paintings & prints
This series is an exploration of my fascination with old family photographs, and digital technology's relationship to sentimentality and the personal image. The works expand vintage family photos through a close reading into hyper-color narratives, magnifying moments in the lives of relatives and strangers from decades ago. Each piece is an elegy for the corporeal family album or visual archive made immaterial by the excess speed and impermanence of digital images. Under close examination these delicate artifacts reveal abstract details, simultaneously conflating the strange, banal and romantic. The work has transformed iteratively from a faded to a saturated-fluorescent palette that approaches an almost industrial chemical process, capturing a more instant condition. Re-represented through drawing, painting, and lithography the work amplifies an emerging state that juxtaposes the immediate moment with its historicized referent.
