Emmett Ct. (120 x 100cm) Oil/tempera on canvas

On the series of images!
The image is finished. I call it Emmett Ct. All the houses in California suburbs look more or less like this. It’s a wealthier residential area located in the heart of Silicon Valley. A few blocks away, you can see the homes of poorer families.
What I was aiming for was the contrast between the objective creation of an image (the mechanical reproduction by the machine or camera) and the subjective manipulation and interpretation of reality through the painterly possibilities. Susan Sontag wrote fascinating things about photography decades ago. The image sequence shows the process of how the retina of the eye captures an image, and in the final picture (clockwise), it explores the possibility of contextualizing photographic representation through the mind, or through artistic-political intent.

One key point in the work is the revolver bullet, initially positioned in the first image, which speeds through the bourgeois idyll of Silicon Valley. The safer one feels, the more the fear grows of what cannot ultimately be controlled, despite all precautions!

Emmett Ct. (120 x 100cm) Oil/tempera on canvas

On the series of images!
The image is finished. I call it Emmett Ct. All the houses in California suburbs look more or less like this. It’s a wealthier residential area located in the heart of Silicon Valley. A few blocks away, you can see the homes of poorer families.
What I was aiming for was the contrast between the objective creation of an image (the mechanical reproduction by the machine or camera) and the subjective manipulation and interpretation of reality through the painterly possibilities. Susan Sontag wrote fascinating things about photography decades ago. The image sequence shows the process of how the retina of the eye captures an image, and in the final picture (clockwise), it explores the possibility of contextualizing photographic representation through the mind, or through artistic-political intent.

One key point in the work is the revolver bullet, initially positioned in the first image, which speeds through the bourgeois idyll of Silicon Valley. The safer one feels, the more the fear grows of what cannot ultimately be controlled, despite all precautions!

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