Michael Jackson
ATO>MIC #11, 2020
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Selenium toned; This is a mixed process print using luminogram, photogram and other darkroom techniques – all cameraless.
23 x 18 cm,
Frame: 38 × 35.5 × 3 cm
Frame: 38 × 35.5 × 3 cm
Unique
Series: ATO > MIC
Signed and dated on verso
© Michael G Jackson
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“The ATO> MIC work started as an attempt to replicate the idea behind still life painting - where you are trying to reproduce the image of solid looking things, things...
“The ATO>MIC work started as an attempt to replicate the idea behind still life painting - where you are trying to reproduce the image of solid looking things, things that could be on a shelf. So, I wanted to try doing that with just using light instead of paints - however I soon started to see the similarities with Harold Edgerton’s famous atomic explosion photos and how the scale of my work could be switched between small items on a shelf to enormous atomic explosions.
That is the reason behind the strange title ATO>MIC - where the “>” is a kind of link between larger and smaller scales, between the two influencing ideas.” – Mike Jackson
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