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| Wayne Stokes, installation of works, 2013 |
BR: What is
the relationship of dichotomy in your work?
WS: Dichotomy seems so black and white. A concept that I think about
in relation to my work is ambivalence which is about simultaneously having
conflicting ideas and emotions about abstraction
or representation, for instance.
BR: The
material abstractions seem to inspire multiple rendered representations of the
original abstraction, leading to new possibilities, could you speak about that?
WS: The material process of applying the metallic foil is more of a
distanced, hands off approach of making a painting. Then there are photos of
the piece, the successive printouts and scans, the repainting the picture from
those various sources. The "abstract" canvases go towards
"representation" and vice versa. Once the process is in motion it
can't be stilled, it isn't one thing.
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| Wayne Stokes, installation of works, 2013 |
BR: What is
your relationship to the flash and its painted form?
WS: The flash changes the appearance of the image on its own.
It is a form of visual feedback. We are looking at pictures of
pictures.
BR: How do you
view these works as a series? Does one image beget the next, and if so
how are you making those decisions?
WS: Yes one image is filtered through these different processes I
mentioned above (photographing, printing, scanning, etc...) and informs the
next.