"It was a big soup of influence,’ Ruscha says. 'I found myself being influenced by everything: things I liked and things I didn’t like; even the half-way stuff pushed me along." - Ruscha, Telegraph
NOTE for artist statement.
I criticize
the high art aura with deliberate hypocrisy, elevating meaningless photographs
on white walls and plinths. It is important that this dialogue comes from
within a self-referent medium, and that irony, self-awareness and satire come
into play.
The
ideologies of Ed Ruscha, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and Marcel Duchamp
have fuelled this approach, and are deliberately referenced in the final work
- for example the final page of my book mimics the milk in Ruscha's Various
Small Fires.
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