I was asked in my feedback for Digital Image & Culture to keep a running blog of notes about the IG sketches I post as these inform my work. I have decided to keep these notes here on this Sketchbook blog which seems to make the most sense. I set it up to store work made outside of the OCA framework – but have been using it less recently as the work has become more integrated.
So a few notes about what I think works and what doesn’t on recent sketches:
The problem with IG is the very fast way people receive. I’m not sure how many people spend more than a few seconds if that on any images. Doing anything that requires someone to stay with something is challenging. At roughly 45 seconds this one is probably stretching it, and other than the movement of the water nothing much takes place for a bit until about a quarter of the way through. For IG I should have started that process sooner. I often include water in this montages. It moves. But when you land on it from a great height it can break you into pieces.
We perceive the water as we do according to our scale and size, our relationship to the universe. But the same movements in the water can be seen in stone, frozen like a photograph of water. The earth’s mantle is a crust over a giant ball of molten liquid. And the fluidity we perceive is relative.
Information is now perceived far more fluidly than it perhaps ever has been as digital code makes data malleable. People talk about the fluidity of communication. But it is relative.
The IG image above includes movement and still, analogue and digital, colour and black and white, clarity of image and cellular image. It isn’t made to suggest any of those things are good or bad.
(c)SJField 2018