Conceptual artwork contriving 12 photographic fragments of the artist's studio and living space (21cm x 29.7 cm) adhered via inkjet transfer to cotton veneer (115cm x 220cm)

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Statement from the artist:

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'Surrounded by poets, musicians, and intellectuals, a notion became apparent to me on the 20th of July; it seems that there is a predominant 'sense', or rather social construct in the artistic community of what an 'artist' is, and must subsequently appear as. An artist wears tweed jackets, smokes cigarettes, and listens to vinyl records. An artist has multiple lovers, owns a typewriter, and attends galleries every other evening; an artist must look like an artist. And as I delve further into this artistic world, the apparent need to adhere to this life becomes deeper imbedded into my own self-perception as an aspiring photographer. I observe this in my own studio and living space; the records layed out on my desk, the cigarette ashes on my briefcase, my wardrobe consisting of blazers and retro button-up polos; the inherent context of an aspiring artist.'

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The technical process and composition of the work was largely inspired by Benji Hartfield's (b. 1999), '12 images of bedsheets on bedsheet' (2019) involving the adherence of printed photographs onto fabric via inkjet transfer.'

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