| Title: | Soapdish 2001 | |
| Medium: | Lightfast inkjet print on Mellotex or Arches paper. 4 pieces each 40 x 40cm | |
Diane was woken in the middle of the
night by a sound that seemed to come from the rear of the house.
She got up to investigate and discovered an intruder in the laundry.
In his anger or fright he threw an object which missed her
head but broke a window, and then made his escape. My friend Fergus was living in the front of the house at the time. In the morning, after hearing Diane's account of the incident, he investigated the garden of an abandoned house next door and in the untendered grass found the following objects: |
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| What is reproduced here is the front and reverse of a Polaroid that seems to have been taken of a young woman in a sexually receptive pose. A close examination of the photograph however, reveals tell-tale signs of the image’s post-facto reproduction. The glare of the flash and the curvature of the figure on an adjacent page show it to have been re-photographed from a glossy magazine. The transfer from one medium to another has divested the photograph of the signs of publication in what one assumes was a deliberate attempt to restore an erotic singularity to the pornographic image. | ||
