Cameras and Watercolour Sunsets is a series in which a camera is placed on the horizon of each watercolour ground. The cameras' lenses hover in place of the sun in these digitally constructed montages.
Like Magritte’s Ceci n'est pas une pipe this series offers the viewer a set of contradictions to negotiate in order to understand the work. The cameras and watercolour paintings are referenced by name in the title but by medium are reproductions, which do not "satisfy emotionally” the actual objects and/or depicted events.
Each image is constructed from amateur photographs of cameras and watercolour paintings from online auction websites. As digital constructs from found web photographs, the series also collapses time, media, and locations together.
The series also draws on the metaphoric notion that sunsets can also allude to 'an end.' Indeed the juxtaposition of the analog cameras depicted with the sunsets references the slow change over to digital recording techniques and the end to the days wherein film cameras were favoured by amateur photographers.
Edition: 1 Artist Proof; 1 Artwork
Size: 20 images +
Series date: 2010- present
More images see: http://www.sylviagborda.com
