Christian Emerton
Chevalier College
LIVING WITH DYING
Photomedia
3D Software, Photomedia Software, 3D Digital Prints
My body of work represents my personal investigation of reality. I used the theme of liminality in each work to analyse distinct elements of the human experience. I am particularly interested in how realities are constructed, nurtured and limited by the physical capacities of our human bodies, as our body is the sum total of our self.
Marker's Commentary
The central theme of liminality in human existence is explored through an innovative approach to photomedia . By utilizing 3D modelling, this work extends the potential of photography to represent critical phases of transition and transformation. In the development of forms, keywords are used as signifiers that extend rather than clarify the ambiguities of the images portrayed. This series navigates pictorial forms suggesting metastatic growth, kintsugi rebirth, and the formation of anthropic shape. This body of work examines the intersection of the animate and inanimate, with the figure in the final frame serving as a metaphor for the transformative power of liminality, as the figure represents the potential for change and the creation of new forms of existence from nothing.
This series avoids being didactic, instead privileging an open interpretive field akin to philosophy of phenomenology, where existence and consciousness are examined. The images presented here subvert the medium of photography - typically reserved for recording empirical truths. The body of work is a sophisticated semiological exploration into the representation of both the liminality of photography in a cybernetic world and attempts through computer aided imaging to pictorialise the subjective experience of life.