Document Control
2014, Pigment Prints and Ambrotypes
To shred is to destroy. Documents are reduced to uniform, fine particles and rendered illegible. Information is lost, evidence evaporates, privacy is protected, and secrets are secured.
Document Control explores the over-abundant consumption of paper as a transitory medium for information. Despite advances in recycling and the current socio-environmental focus on a paperless workflow, paper production remains a highly unsustainable industry.
The images in this body of work utilise shredded residue from a multitude of destroyed documents. By assembling these shreds into structures and subsequently photographing them, paper simultaneously becomes the subject, the object, the medium and the message.
Aberration No.1, 82 x 59 cm
Cancatervate III - Cancatervate VIII, 20 x 25 cm (each)
Aberration No.2, 82 x 59 cm
Cancatervate IX - Cancatervate XII, Cancatervate II, Cancatervate XVI, 20 x 25 cm (each)
Aberration No.3, 82 x 59 cm
Cancatervate I, Cancatervate XIII - XIV, Cancatervate XVII - XVIII , 20 x 25 cm (each)
Aberration No.4, 111 x 80 cm
