'Free Breakfast 03/10/10'

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After Walid Raad

At the Walid Raad exhibition at Whitechapel there were a series of blue monochrone photographs that were found in rubble in Lebanon. Alongside was an explanation saying that when they sent to the laboratory for testing, it was discovered that they were actually pictures of men and women who had died.

"A series of monochrome blue photographs, the negatives for which were found under the rubble of war-ravaged Beirut, hide the images of anonymous men and women found dead in the Mediterranean." from the Whitechapel website

I was inspired by the use of the scale in these photos, the blue photos were massive and the photos of the men and women underneath were about 100 times smaller. I've done the same thing here with my photos of the dust from the Gorbals demolition, and with a smaller photo of the demolition site. On second thought I should've used a photo of the two towers at Norfolk Court before one was demolished. I think the scale and clinical style creates a cynical and complex relationship between the two photos in each image.

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Here are images made from the non-space cut out above the dust in the photographs I took of the floor within the installation with the table and wallpaper. Due to the bad printing quality, the photos came out very blue, but when I cut off the top of the photos, the blues created a new, calmer aesthetic, but fro the same photo. I would like to investigate these more, maybe using inks and collage.

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