Jim Kazanjian
“I’m interested in occupying a space where the mundane intersects the strange, and the familiar becomes alien.”
My images are digitally manipulated composites built from photographs I find online. The technique I use could almost be considered hyper-collage. I cobble together pieces from photos I find interesting and feed them into Photoshop. Through a palimpsest-like layering process of adding and subtracting, I gradually blend the various parts together. I am basically manipulating and assembling a disparate array of multiple photographic elements to produce a single homogenized image.
UNTITLED CHATEAU, 2011
My method of construction ...
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