amalgamation
(-)it's obviously not about re-photographing the photographs to make exact copies, but to intervene and bring a spectrum of feelings - warmth, humour, anxiety - to what might otherwise be considered cool aloof image. You can see the illusion of my hand in the layering. It looks like a drawing. It's not systematic or uniform. The opacity of every layer is a different fallible, human decision(-)
Idris Khan
more layers
Avalokiteshvara
Jason Salavon
Leonardo da Vinci
Labels: amalgamations, Avalokiteshvara, Idris Khan, Leonardo da Vinci
nice work, indeed. found footage, retold, by found layers...
(thanks for introducing jason salavon)
can allso be seen in works of Jim Campbell :
http://www.jimcampbell.tv/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/2676