Gel plate image prints
Image transfers using gel plate lead to their utter transformation. And the fascination of one world changing into another, unpredictably.
Hunt for images in glossy magazines is mostly driven by their contemporary appeal, stereotypes enforced by advertising, fashion, design. Gel plate turns them into essentially monochromatic prints, faded, specled, grainy, aged, emphasized by weak, parchment-like background colors and impromptu imprints of stamps, creating an unusual, abstract or symbolic environments they exist in. Traveling back in time and forward in emotional depth and image-telling stories of life.
This series was created for the ‘All in One’ installation project, where image-telling stories will fill the ‘hollow brain’ to create an individual, a unique One. The series peels off layers of protective covers and shields, to reach what exists under the ‘proverbial or literal’ veil – the true nature of an individual, embeded in experiences and its subconscious world. Yet, its nature remains murky, cloudy, and ambiguous – perhaps because dreams, floating desires, imprints of religion, culture, stereotypes, are not that easy to peel off…or because the ultimate clarity does not exist…unlike uniqueness.
Maybe I am making too much out of these images. Yet, no one can argue about their subtle, mysterious and powerful appeal, whatever story you find in them.
Left Brain Artists 