7438 x 3189 px | 63 x 27 cm | 24,8 x 10,6 inches | 300dpi
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The Netherlands
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title: Punctum from the Dreamtime - technique: pigment inkjet on canvas 50 x 150 cm - Coming full circle. - This work came about after I had visited some sites with hand stencils in the Grampian Mountains, Australia. These are sacred sites for the original Australians. - I use my hands in my work now and then. Why? It is a strong signal; a strong gesture: hi! stop! ok! welcome! hold on! bye! - It is a way to touch someone; the other; you; me across time and -in the case of the Internet- across space. The Internet may be our modern time Dreamtime. - In the early nineties we visited the some of the caves on Sulawesi and I actually was allowed to touch one of the oldest hand prints. Touching someone across 35 or 40.000 years! It would be impossible to do that now. - Stencils of hands are a prehistoric form of inkjet: mostly they have been made by blowing pigments by mouth (sometimes through reed or a hollow bone) onto the rock. Using whatever there was around as a stencil. - When Epson in 2002 brought us pigment inkjet printing with their 2100; 7600 and 9600 series, I came full circle: I printed this image on canvas, using a 7600. Modern pigment inkjet! - All colors are made by using light not photoshop. - Punctum: The Direct Hit - Now where does this title come from? The Dreamtime is as real to aboriginal people as the Internet. Or as virtual. History is still around us. And more and more I tend to agree with them. And every time I see these stenciled hands, they touch me directly. Just like in good photography something touches us. By definition in photography it is something from the past. In La Chambre Claire Roland Barthes coined the phrase punctum for that what touches us in a photo: the direct hit. He goes on with describing a photo as a perfect analogon and a message without code. An undeniable proof of the existence of what is in the picture. Now with digital photography abundant we know better, but for the hands on the rock: I accept the evidence!
