During my meeting with Jeff he suggested two artists to me and i looked them up for this entry. They were both very relevant to the work i am doing.
THOMAS DEMAND
At first glance as Demands work, I thought that he took very formal pictures of offices and buildings. When i started to research his work i found that in one series he builds a cardboard model of a photographed scene and photographs that cardboard scene.
These cardboard scenes that he makes are life size and he removes small details from the piece, like faces in portraits and headings on notepads. It is small details that clues the viewer that something isn't right with the images.
When i first say these images i thought it was just a photograph of a place or room but i after i looked at it for a minute i realized it was different. His reconstruction of these scenes really separates the viewer from the reality.
It is interesting because a person is already removed from a scene just by viewing a photograph, but when a viewer sees a photograph of a model of a scene it is like the person is double removed from the situation.
I think that this work relates to my work, because jeff and i discussed how the action of breaking an egg is much separated from seeing an egg ready to fall in real life.
John Baldessari
-An artist from California. Jeff asked me to look at his Ears and Noses series, but i really didn't connect with it or connect it with my ideas. I found another series of his were he overlapped images and added color and imagery to make them blend together. I really like how he makes the imagery go together with lines that run through the whole images. This kind of images and how the different parts are formally linked together is what i want to try to do for my diptychs. Thanks for the great artist references jeff!
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