Entheogen Vignettes
2018 – Series of 15 light-box works
Latex print on polypropylene, LED light boxes
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The Work
Entheogen Vignettes is a series of fifteen light-box works developed from moving image.
The images began as individual frames from an unreleased video album created to accompany a band’s audio album. Originally intended as a live visual performance, the footage was created from manipulated X-ray imagery that was progressively distorted until the original image became something entirely new.
When I returned to the footage frame by frame, individual moments began to reveal themselves as works in their own right.
From Moving Image to Still Image
The images exist somewhere between the moving and the still.
Each vignette is a single frame extracted from a process of manipulation, distortion and recombination. Removed from the sequence in which it was created, the frame becomes an independent image while retaining something of the movement and transformation from which it emerged.
This process reflects an ongoing interest in breaking down my own work and rebuilding it into something unexpected.
Mirror Images
The abstractions have a Rorschach-like quality. There is no single fixed image within them; each viewer can recognise something different.
In this sense, the works become more of a mirror than a mere object.
The image is completed through the act of looking.
Destruction and Rebirth
My practice has always been shaped by experimentation rather than a predetermined outcome.
I repeatedly return to existing material, manipulating, remixing, combining and sometimes destroying it in the search for something new. Creation becomes a process of destruction and rebirth: an image is taken apart so that another image can emerge.
Entheogen Vignettes developed directly from this process.
Moving Image and VJ Practice
The work also reflects my background as a VJ, where images are created, altered and recombined in response to music and live environments.
The original video album was conceived to be performed alongside a musical performance, giving the sound a changing visual texture. Although the album was never released, its fragments became the starting point for a new body of still images.
The work therefore retains its origins in performance and moving image, even when presented as a series of static light boxes.
Influence
This approach to abstraction and moving image has been influenced by early experimental filmmakers and the visual apparatuses developed by artists such as Oskar Fischinger.
Rather than treating video as a fixed sequence, I use it as a material from which images can continually be extracted, transformed and reimagined.
Entheogen Vignettes is one result of that process.
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