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Gleaner's Lexicon

Photograph
2005 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This is a digitally collaged image, produced as an inkjet carbon print. It is from the series 'A Gleaner's Lexicon' in which Sandra Matthews gathers images of disparate objects and reassembles them to create images suggestive of eccentric forms archiving. As here, the images from this series show a four-part grouping of objects that are separate and yet infer subtle inter-relations. As Matthews writes:
'Each of these constellations is structured to suggest harmonies and dissonances, affinities and tensions, possible and improbable narratives. Ultimately I am interested in the build-up and breakdown of systems of order, and in the process of making meaning itself.'


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleGleaner's Lexicon (series title)
Materials and techniques
Inkjet carbon print
Brief description
Inkjet carbon print from 'A Gleaner's Lexicon' series, digitally collaged images of disparate objects, by Sandra Matthews, USA, 2005
Physical description
Digitally collaged black and white scanned images of a piece of paper, a glove, twigs and a shell, arranged in a grid and produced as an inkjet carbon print.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 433mm
  • Sheet width: 440mm
  • Image height: 268mm
  • Image width: 292mm
Credit line
Given by the photographer
Summary
This is a digitally collaged image, produced as an inkjet carbon print. It is from the series 'A Gleaner's Lexicon' in which Sandra Matthews gathers images of disparate objects and reassembles them to create images suggestive of eccentric forms archiving. As here, the images from this series show a four-part grouping of objects that are separate and yet infer subtle inter-relations. As Matthews writes:
'Each of these constellations is structured to suggest harmonies and dissonances, affinities and tensions, possible and improbable narratives. Ultimately I am interested in the build-up and breakdown of systems of order, and in the process of making meaning itself.'
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Collection
Accession number
E.31-2007

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Record createdApril 24, 2008
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