The Red Earth Project (2019-)
3. Colonial Enterprise
Colonial Enterprise
Triptych. Fine art print. Mixed media: photography.
Text to image data translation from deep learning model.
Virtually hand-modelled sculpture from data output. Digital collage.
110cm x 40cm
Edition 1 of 3
2021
Including high end magnet frames from traditional framing company HALBE Rahmen GmbH
This work more directly speaks to the psychological legacy of Christianity used as a powerful colonial weapon. The virtual totems find their way into the photographs, a gradual, somewhat violent disruption of traditions, themselves disrupted, opening a confrontation between technologies and the gaze of colonialism.
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