The deskwork needed to make these works is onerous so I've been putting off getting stuck into the final two. I wish I could locate someone to do it for me. Yesterday I visited the print shop, Pixel Perfect Prolab, in Chippendale and picked up five large items they'd done for me, including two paramontages. I wonder if they have an editing service that I could use to get the assembly work done by someone other than me. Having worked in a publishing unit for many years I am competent to do the work but it's boring and difficult.
I've settled on the term "paramontage", it was suggested to me by an old school friend who himself writes poetry. I'd contemplated "montage" but this term is used in the cinema industry and has a specific meaning, though one close to what I envisage. "Paramontage" is a portmanteau word that encapsulates the complexity of my aim, but that veers off into new territory. Thanks Andrew.
The two new works that I'm still in the process of finalising are 'George Street shuffle - I' and 'George Street shuffle - II', the titles deriving from two sonnets I wrote over a period of several years. I won't include the text here (you'll have to wait) but they look at the modern world in a way that allows the photographs that accompany them to add to the signification of the whole. In a mechanised world made up of images and words it's difficult to embody the often overwhelming significance of stray moments, and my aim is to say something with these works that represents a world view.
Comments welcome (the mockups below might be a bit small though: sorry).
Images – Canon PowerShot A530, 5 July 2008
12.22pm to 3.47pm
Words – 20
and 21 September, 12, 25 and 26 November, 2020; 15 and 23 September 2021
Above: George Street shuffle - II
Images – Canon
PowerShot A530, 26 June 2008 2.07pm to 4.10pm
Words – 25 and
26 November, and 11 and 26 December, 2020; 14 January and 20 September 2021; 13
May 2022
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