Blue Screens
Blue Screens is a project consisting of 50 unique still images, adopting mobile device resolutions & aspect ratios for its frame. the digital file is minted as NFT in HicEtNunc (via objkt.com) gradually in 10 batches, released at different time. This project uses photographs of clear blue sky I’ve taken since 2014, and later in an experiment, these photos became the “Il Fait Bleu ” (2014/2015), using paper cuttings and blacklight, and is still part of the work process to this day.
The blue sky always reminds me the blue screen on vfx production (chroma key) and “no signal” on computer screens, a status of “no value” yet, the almost flat blue color of the sky gives me a personal feeling to emptying the mind, trying to avoid values, norms or thoughts, and the blue skies become the perfect blue screen as background for the objects beneath it as foreground mid-ground, so I can get an almost perfect chroma keying on them.
Since the pandemic, the selected photos are edited and composed into digital collage, in Blue Screens series, the work is presented in mobile device screen. The process of “cutting” is used in the making of digital photo collage, similar to my paper series, cutting the sky and bringing it home, then Blue Screens is to bring it to our hand, smartphones or tablet, a device we’re attached to, an attachment to all the social “values” especially in the digital world.
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