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Art: Remediated. A Digital Gallery By Tiffany Kimball. “Duet”. “Duet” Remediated. Artist’s Statement:
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Art: Remediated A Digital Gallery By Tiffany Kimball
“Duet” Remediated Artist’s Statement: This piece features a digital photo of “Duet”, a pastel drawing of acoustic and electric guitars that I made in 2003. It also features a digital photo of a sewer drain. The theme of this piece has always been how music is primitive (acoustic) and technological (electric). Music is continually evolving, being made new, being remediated. I have chosen to alter “Duet” digitally, changing image sizes and positions, layering color washes and the sewer drain image to represent how just like music’s substance, feeling and soul are present through the ages, so the substance, feeling and soul is present in my artwork, even if it is made digital. I hope you feel the soul as well.
“Inner Voices” Removed Artist’s Statement: When I finished this painting in 2004, I loosely called it a self portrait. The painting, consisting of layers of watercolor, acrylic paint, pastel and charcoal, was meant to illustrate how we present a Self to those around us, but we have a whole other Self inside who sometimes we don’t let people see. There are 3 Selves in “Inner Voices”, the two in black are meant to represent the voices and are screaming, and the calm blue one in the center is meant to represent the Self that we let others see. In this alteration of “Inner Voices”, I used photos of things around my apartment building (stairs, a hallway, ice, a sewer drain) to show that this Self is even further removed than the one represented in 2004 was. The new self is hiding in a secluded bedroom in an apartment. The “Inner Voices” are removed from others by flesh and space and cars and streets and walls.
Altered “I Swear” Artist’s Statement: I made this painting for a friend in 2004. It is based off of the first line in her favorite song, “I swear by the moon and the stars in the sky, I’ll be there.” I had a blast making this painting, I made all of the texture by adhering plastic wrap (yes, the stuff you use to cover your food) and strips of canvas to a board with Gesso. I then dripped and splattered primary colors (oil paint) over the piece. I used one paintbrush, one toothbrush, and my fingers on the piece only. It was a blast. This piece has always been about rawness of texture, color and shape. I wanted the digital piece to have the same qualities. I cut and pasted the stars and moon(s) in different positions and then applied a filter to the whole piece.
Nomad (Self Portrait) Artist’s Statement: I completed this piece in the Fall of 2004 at NDSU in a painting class. It was the only piece I was happy with that I made in the class. I considered this a self portrait primarily because the red hair matched my own. The digitized version of my self portrait (which I’ve named, “Nomad”) is a much more fitting self portrait. This piece features digital pictures of several defining places/moments/people in my life. My “Matisse Study” (Self Portrait) appears in the upper corner, representing the semester I spent studying art at NDSU. It was a trying time for me and immediately following, I made the decision to take a break from school and try “doing the art thing” without school. Each photo has a story and helped shape who I am. Being able to cut, paste, stretch, alter these photos digitally is much easier than the headaches it would take to achieve the same result using paint. It is also more meaningful this way, because I was able to use actual photographs taken at my defining moments, rather than just painting from memories of those times.
