Dena Eber Dena Eber
Computer-grams: A New Photography
The computer in fine arts is in the process of molding itself
into a new aesthetic, one with its own language. My art outlines a
portion of that new aesthetic in the realm of photography, or, as I have
defined it, computer-grams. My computer-grams, are reminiscent of
Man-Ray's technique for creating photo-grams (or Rayo-graphs).
Man-Ray produced his photo-grams by placing objects directly on photographic
paper in the darkroom. Rather than recording three dimensional space on to
two dimensional film, I am placing objects directly on the flat surface of a
scanner. I use this new tool to make work about human events presented
as pictorial series. Each series is a multi-image story. Each image is an
individual combination of objects, many of which change over time. The
flowers, for example, die over time and in some cases become more beautiful,
and in others, loose their presence and become trapped.
This image is from a series dealing with the womb as an enclosed safe place.
In this work, the energy from the womb appears as luminous colors through
gauze, and the flower (embryo) is frozen in ice. What happens to the flower in
winter? What happens to the child never born? How can a work so beautiful
contain painful thoughts? How can pain be beautiful?
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