Back in 2014 at the crossroads of the world, Manhattan’s Times Square, saw the first rapid proliferation of the garishly bright LED billboard advertising on the face of every high rise building. What advertiser would think a few seconds of an ad captured photographically would portray not just their paid message, but reveal these images of the unseen and surreal lurking within their computer controlled message? One clearly sees phantasmagorical forms of waterfalls, cloud patterns and fireworks set against the realistic rendering of a still [or in the case of a taxi, moving] object amidst what appears to be a Dalinian landscape. The artist’s ability to render these as an ethereal hidden code, supplants the intended message of the medium and creates another body of work forever altering our perception and experience of reality. It must be said again that these images are all single shot unmanipulated view camera photography, shot on film and printed by the artist as toned silver gelatin contact prints.
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