Projection Series. 2022

The series of images shows several abstract-looking depictions of plants and vegetation. The individual visual objects are only rudimentarily recognisable. They interweave with the neighbouring regions of the picture. There is barely any clear distinction between figure and ground. Despite their photographic appearance, the views break away from the logic of photorealistic depictions. The fragmented pictures appear more like large-scale graphic image textures, in which photographic material seems to have been taken apart, layered and rearranged. The work attempts to create a more ephemeral, abstract and atmospheric ‘depiction of reality’ by breaking down photo-graphic material. In this work, the main interest is in the extent to which it is possible to use digital image processing to generate atmospheric depictions that do not merely pursue pure implementation of photographic representation, but can create their own pictorial reality by means of a painterly feel.

The starting point for the technical implementation was a selection of photographs. These were prepared as light textures in a 3D environment and finally projected onto a fine-meshed grid of over 10,000 square and differently inclined reflective surfaces. All the modelling and image projection took place within the 3D scene and the results were output as an image by means of computer-generated rendering.

The aim was to break down the photographic image into fields – to create a ‘third entity’, between depiction of reality and abstract display. To articulate the photographic image as a fabric, a kind of light-colour-field texture whose original motif is only partially still decipherable, and perhaps also to reflect our increasingly fragmented view of the world and let it resonate in the images.