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After the Object
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After the Object

After the Object follows a group of objects through photogrammetry, as a photograph is taken apart and reassembled as a digital object. Each work holds one stage of that process.

The clear 3D prints are made from the mesh alone, without the surface. Colour and texture are gone. What remains is geometry, a form that light passes straight through.

The texture maps are the images the software generates to wrap around a 3D model. The surface of the object is cut into pieces and laid flat in an order that suits the machine, not the eye. A texture map holds everything the clear print lacks, the information needed to make the object look real, and it looks nothing like the object.

The installations bring the two halves back together. In one, two prints hang on the wall with a QR code between them. Scanned with a phone, the code places a starfish in the room with form and surface joined again. You can walk around it, and it exists nowhere except on the screen.


Medium
Archival pigment print on cotton rag
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm
Edition
5+1 artist proof
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Works in this series 12 works
Clear 3D print (No.01)
GM–AO–001
Clear 3D print (No.01)
Ed. 5+1 artist proof
Texture map (No.02)
GM–AO–002
Texture map (No.02)
Ed. 5+1 artist proof
Installation with augmented starfish (No.03)
GM–AO–003
Installation with augmented starfish (No.03)
Clear 3D print (No.04)
GM–AO–004
Clear 3D print (No.04)
Ed. 5+1 artist proof
Texture map (No.05)
GM–AO–005
Texture map (No.05)
Ed. 5+1 artist proof
Installation with augmented object (No.06)
GM–AO–006
Installation with augmented object (No.06)
Clear 3D print (No.07)
GM–AO–007
Clear 3D print (No.07)
Ed. 5+1 artist proof
Texture map (No.08)
GM–AO–008
Texture map (No.08)
Ed. 5+1 artist proof
Installation with augmented object (No.09)
GM–AO–009
Installation with augmented object (No.09)
Clear 3D print (No.10)
GM–AO–010
Clear 3D print (No.10)
Ed. 5+1 artist proof
Texture map (No.11)
GM–AO–011
Texture map (No.11)
Ed. 5+1 artist proof
Installation with augmented object (No.12)
GM–AO–012
Installation with augmented object (No.12)
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