Process of Elimination

« The Myth of Transparency: Before there were computers - indeed, before there were media of any kind - people were just in the world. People saw things as they really were: there were no pixels, no aliasing, and no need for Web-safe colors. Objects were present to people; the rays of light reflected by objects entered their eyes undistorted by any intervening medium (other than the air itself). Today, a good computer interface gets a user as close to that original experience as possible. » —Jay David & Diane Gromala Starting with a panel, sized relative to widescreen film format, I photo-transferred parts of glitch-infested screen-shots I captured from a few action fantasy films. Collaging only portions of the image onto the surface, I restored the rest of the scene with paint. Playing with paint’s photo-realistic, loose, chromatic and thin qualities versus the rigid, realistic and thin screen shots, I create a contrasting dialogue questioning ‘what is real’.

00h34m20s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 48” x 19” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010 | Located in Biella, Italy @ ZAION Gallery

22h58m30s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 48” x 19” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

00h45m27s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 72” x 28” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

00h14m23s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

00h14m37s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

00h15s24s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

00h31m42s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010 | SOLD

00h32m52s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

00h34m24s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

00h41m32s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

01h12m53s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010 | SOLD

17h54m57s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010 | SOLD

17h55m46s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

22h51m00s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

22h51m44s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

22h53m16s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

22h54m40s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

22h58m03s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

23h00m37s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

23h01m34s | Oil and Photo-transfer on Panel | 11 1/4” x 4 3/4” | Jaspal Birdi, 2010

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