Valerie Green’s “Left to My Own Devices” now at Moskowitz Bayse utilizes digital processing to create a unique and translucently layered series of dimensions based on photographs of photographs on computer screens, tablets, and smart phones.
Using a liquid lens cleaner, Green devices prismatic rainbows; re-photographing her own printed images, slicing and chopping them, she makes surreal and shredded images that appear fragmented and dreamlike.
Green uses a grey computer screen, Photoshop editing processes, photographs of photographs, and tiny pieces of photographs to create her images, which are all about the layers. Both surreal and abstract, these rainbow droplets and opaque and translucent surfaces reflect the technology of today in the soul eternal.
“My pieces are about the translation from virtual space to 3D. I’ve made lots of different projects that led to this, but in this exhibition, the inspiration was with our hands and our devices, how interconnected they are, and how interconnected what we see in real life and what we see on a screen could be,” the artist relates.
- Genie Davis, all photos: Jack Burke