Title: African Graffiti
Series: The Walls Have Ears
Date: 2004
Material: Digital Photographic Prints
Size: 34" x 24"
Limited Edition: 12
Artist: Joe Pollitt
{Signed by the artist}
Description:
We see the world in waves. Not complete, as first thought, but as a series of images blurred. We see, as if lying on the ground looking up at clouds; with a little patience and a lot of imagination. We make up the unseen difference and create the images needed and therefore memory of the familiar makes natural visibility possible. We manage to find clarity within the unknown and by familiar shapes such as architecture, animals and machinery, make up our ever increasing pictorial memory.
These images of the walls of Contonou, in the Republic of Benin in West Africa are the perfect examples of seeing something differently. A very unique Graffiti, created unconsciously over time; naturally made up by the noise and climate within the City. It is more of what is, 'not being said' than what is, 'being said'. The message of the masses spoken with such loud silence in these few images photographed.
Series: The Walls Have Ears
Date: 2004
Material: Digital Photographic Prints
Size: 34" x 24"
Limited Edition: 12
Artist: Joe Pollitt
{Signed by the artist}
Description:
We see the world in waves. Not complete, as first thought, but as a series of images blurred. We see, as if lying on the ground looking up at clouds; with a little patience and a lot of imagination. We make up the unseen difference and create the images needed and therefore memory of the familiar makes natural visibility possible. We manage to find clarity within the unknown and by familiar shapes such as architecture, animals and machinery, make up our ever increasing pictorial memory.
These images of the walls of Contonou, in the Republic of Benin in West Africa are the perfect examples of seeing something differently. A very unique Graffiti, created unconsciously over time; naturally made up by the noise and climate within the City. It is more of what is, 'not being said' than what is, 'being said'. The message of the masses spoken with such loud silence in these few images photographed.
