Brush It In

"Brush it in is a colloquial expression for a wide variety of alterations made to digital photographs after their creation. The transition from analogue to digital post-production yielded an incredible expansion of existing techniques. Adobe Photoshop was originally developed as a digital emulation of the physical techniques of the darkroom. It quickly developed its own specific vocabulary and it is precisely this language that Brush it in engages with. As digital image making became ubiquitous within popular culture so did the awareness that these digital tools often had more power for deception than the photographic act itself." - Flowers Gallery. See more;

"Brush it in also alludes to the digital impossibility of encountering objects within the image saturated landscape of contemporary culture. The inevitable disappointment of mass-produced commodities has created a sort of haptic half-life where the image produces more pleasure than the object itself. Darren Har vey-Regan engages directly with this struggle in The Halt (2011), where an axe confronts and attacks its very representation with a violently iconoclastic gesture. Similarly in Relation (2011), an image of a saw is bisected by a vertical cut in the print that mimics the tool’s physical potential. In Grounds of Doubt (2011), a rock obstinately resists the flatness of the photographic print, peeling away from the otherwise flawless surface." - Flowers Gallery

26 October 2012 - 05 January 2013