Portrait Automatic

ABOUT - sheets of glass, light refracted from the projector over glass, gas vapours, printed paper, acrylic paints, iron wire, gold paint, gaffa tape, the artists fingerprints. The artwork is captured in two, single exposures as a stop-motion animation. high res files will also be supplied - 19519 x 27519 pixels - 160 X 218 cm - 63 X 86 inches @ 350dpi. 1/1 NFT + fine-art giclee print on Hahnemhle cotton rag - signed and titled by the artist. ABOUT 'PORTRAIT AUTOMATIC' SERIES - A collection of deconstructed portrait sculptures - built from traditional fine-art materials and found objects collected from the streets of London, UK. Each artwork is composed and assembled directly onto my A3 scanner and captured in a single exposure in other-worldly macroscopic detail and remarkable resolution. Once captured the composition is broken down - and so exists only momentarily IRL before traversing eternally into the machine ether Inspired conceptually in part by Metzgers "Machine, Auto-Creative and Auto-Destructive Art" (1960s) as well as Jean Tinguely Mtamatic artworks (1950s). NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION - OR - MY HISTORY WITH THE MACHINES ... I began working with scanners in 2001 (aged 15), at school there was an Epson in the computer lab and so (working opportunistically so as to remain unseen by the IT teacher; who would no doubt feel my actions as a terrible abuse of his nice, clean scanner :) I began to place dried plants, flowers, leaves and so on directly onto the scanner glass and make artworks I discovered that images made in this way had a distinct depth and look to them - a sense of weightlessness, of floating and the ethereal I had discovered Scanography in my own way... The digital cameras available at the time were crap - 1 megapixel and prohibitively expensive. The scanner, in contrast, was relatively affordable at a fraction of the cost and capable of capturing imagery in far better resolution and detail (over 20,000 x 30,000 pixels!). I had a job working weekends and holidays doing the washing up in a busy pub near to my mothers house. This income allowed me to save up enough dosh to purchase my own cheap Epson A4 scanner. I could now produce my first significant series of artworks - Pauses in the year 2002 - these works were shared on my website www.karborn.com and earned me some standing in the early 2000s, I was on my way... All the heads were built between 2013 - 2018 - The time now feels right to reprise these pieces and present them as a coherent collection - the culmination of many years working with my scanner and my first significant body of fine-artworks. hashtagweworkedwithwildideasusingmachinesinwaystheywerenotdesignedtobeusedandatfirstweworkedfornothingbutnowwecanworkforabetterlifeandmakearttoexistsincerelywelcometotheundergroundeternalkkaarrbboorrnnlondonandonandonandonand KARBORN 2001 - 2022