Jeff Murphy: Dig

Artist(s):

• Jeff Murphy

Title:

Dig

Exhibition:

• DAC Online Exhibition 2011: Analogue is the New Digital
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Creation Year:

2011

Category:

• 2D & Wall-Hung

Artist Statement:

My current project, Dig, explores the interplay between our industrial past, current development, and the natural world. The images posses a strong psychological undercurrent through both the iconography and the application of textural surface patinas, both physical and digital.

The images begin as rudimentary charcoal drawing that when photographed and reworked, become virtual landscapes. Elements and symbols reflecting loss, industrial development, childhood, decay, and disinterment are then worked into this terrain under layers of digital material. The resulting 360 degree landscape Flash panoramas were to be my original end point. However, I decided to rework the images further and inter them with a true physical barrier. So, the works were printed onto large pieces of cotton sateen fabric, adhered to wood, and coated with several layers of wax medium.

In the end, the final pieces reflect a rich combination of physical and digital layering. I consider both the 360 Panoramas and the works on cloth to be finished works. The two formats each distinguishing characteristics that make them unique, yet both possess this digital/analogue duality.