Using foam board to act as a faux frame.
My application proposal for the vertical gallery has been successful but the panel had queried wether the work warranted the constriction of the cube and felt a little worried about the heat that could of been trapped in the box. There fore I have taken some time to reconsider how I am displaying my work. The vital factor of this work was to mimic painting. There were underlying factors of course but I felt that my presentation should try to replicate the painting as best it could. After discussions with the gallery team I realised that it would be perfectly possible to build frames around televisions. The wood would also block out the black bars of the image and present a frame around my my digital image. Although there would be complexities with building the frames this felt a lot less complicated that my previous proposal. The way that the image would sit on the wall, illuminated and full of colour, would hopefully start to match the presence of painting.
There were various TV sizes available to me in the AV store and I decided to take advantage of this the best I could. In an effort to emphasise painting and they way it is hung on the wall, I decided to arrange my images using a salon hang. This will have to be created with 4 screens and will make it a little challenging to give it that free feel of a salon, there will be no centre image and there fore it will be hard to base the images around this but by placing images out of conjunction with on another it should come together. I had hoped that this would break up the rigidness of using the screens which can feel very hard edged and quite cold. Hopefully with the frames around as well the images created could really come to life.
These frames will be boxed so that none of the TV is visible, instead we will see the image as if it is glowing from a light box. On closer inspection this will reveal the pixels that make up the image. Filling large wall on large TV’s will hopefully create this really impactful image. The strong colour and content of the collages already creates a powerful image, but displaying it at this scale I hope will really challenge the audiences expectations.
One element that I will have to abandon with this approach will be recreating the sizes of these paintings. I feel that matching the painting sizes with on the TVs becomes very complex. This would mean cropping large sections of certain screens and result in much poorer image qualities. With the projectors it was much easier to cut the frames to the correct size then add the projection image after but with the Tv this would not be possible. Despite this it gives me the chance to really push the size and scale of these images to fit the space.
