SLOW THE EYE
poem objects contained in this box/book, accompanied by 12 plain text cover sheets. These objects are generated from digital photographs shot by the artists (some of which are photographs of photographs). Each object contains no less than 100 photo-elements, enlarged, condensed, expanded, contracted and exploded then constructed as a single image. It is then transferred to the hand-cut, hand-printed silkscreen process. It is the logical extension of traditional photomontage using digital media.
The collaborators arrived at the decision to inaugurate this on-going series with black and white images for a number of reasons: the primal presence/absence of all color; honoring the black and white photograph; chiaroscuro; positive/negative polarity and so on.
The second step in this three-step, on-going series of SLOW THE EYE, is color images on mounted canvas using the photo emulsion process, in a limited edition box/book.
This is a limited, first addition of twenty-four box/books, signed by all three collaborators and numbered and dated.