December 2024.
"Port Land Vessel" is a digital excavation of archive imagery, and camera-less photographic works that dissolve the boundary between material and virtual, past and present. Using Photoshop as both a brush and a chisel, these compositions undergo a process of distortion, fragmentation, and liquefaction—echoing the chemical degradation in my Photism images, but rendered through the digital medium.
By warping and stretching classical iconography with modern digital tools, the use of which are laid bare to see, the series evokes a sense of layered time, non-linear repetition, duplication, we are invited to glimpse these relics through the rippling surface of history. The vase—an object of function and form—becomes a metaphor for containment, travel and transformation, its contours refracted into shifting planes of colour, shape and light.
Emerging from a dialogue between analogue aesthetics and digital manipulation, “Port Land Vessel” aligns with contemporary explorations in cameraless photography, with the use of digital tools exposed, where pixels replace film grain and erasure becomes a tool of revelation.

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