Palladium Prints, 2024
By Anant Saraf, 2024
Inspired by Father John Misty’s “Total Entertainment Forever”, a song about images, consumption, and the future of both, this work was the result of printing imagery on an antique medium that would be unrecognizable to the inventors of the medium- a result of thinking through and beyond time, of a series of experiments and questions, including:
How would I describe myself and the present in terms of digital culture and imagery? How much of myself is the (digital) culture I consume? If this is an image of the present on a medium of the past, what would an image of the future on the medium of the present look like? How can I make this just disorienting enough before it becomes noise? What would Talbot and Daguerre think?
1. Self Portrait, Cyberpunk 2077, Grand Theft Auto 5, server room
2. Lyrics from Seed and Total Entertainment Forever by @petercatrecordingco and @fatherjohnmisty, affirmations, Spotify inferences of me. Both songs and their lyrics relate very much to how I am thinking of/through time
3. Digital Detritus from a project w @meitongxian
4. Self Portrait, College Hill CCTV camera
5. Wall, with 2 more images not shown
6. Print 1 when it was wet and cropped versions
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