Dotlineform (Michael Davies) has born 1967. BSc Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Bath, UK. Group exhibitions: 2008 Play On, Fabric, Bradford, UK; Saltaire Arts Trail Open Exhibition, Saltaire, UK. 2007 RGB, South Square Gallery, Bradford, UK. Events: 2007 Enabling Artistic Practice, South Square Gallery.
"My work is concerned with transforming images in order to find their abstract truth, an objective representation of the world. i am trying to articulate the process of creating images that reach for the fundamental, the harmonic, the quantum of our lives".
Kylie Truth by
Dotlineform
, United Kingdom
2000x2000 pxl, digital painting 2008
This picture is derived from photos of Kylie Minogue. who is she? All we have are photos, it might be possible to collect all the photos ever taken, and yet would we still be any closer to the truth of who is Kylie? (or, anyone).
In this image there are 2 images, superimposed:
• the pixels of a photograph of Kylie, they look like atoms viewed at a magnification of 10,000,000 using an electron microscope;
• a composite of 1 pixel wide edges of 500 photographs of Kylie, arranged in a grid (all we see are the edges, there is emptiness inside).
Perhaps the truth is hidden, but it is visible waiting to be discovered, the proof is defined by a shadow, a watermark. the shadow unlocks the truth. There is a connection between the external and the internal, and evidence of one is needed to understand the other. what describes the rock in the stream, the shape of the rock or the shape the water makes flowing over it? in this way, part of this image is the truth, the other is the key, the cryptographic watermark and the image it describes, you can see them both, as clear as 50% daylight, but which one is the key and which one is the truth?
