Remy Dean on ‘Biodes’
Don’t they look tasty?
Perhaps because they are a visual ode to the ongoing bio-logical energy cycles of growth and digestion. Life ensures their continuity ensuring life continuing, in producer-consumer symbiosis… This could be considered a document of Process Art.
Although the compositions are lens-based transcripts, quite literally, there is also emphasis upon ambiguity and metaphor that mimic some conventions of poetic structure. An extension of the concepts I also explore in a series known as Land Poems, which are digital prints made with a similar photoreactive process using colours sampled from landscape. This time zooming-in on the minutiae, lifting colours and ratios from biological materials, including foodstuffs, that the land has gifted to us.
A subtle line, column, and grid structure maintains resonance with the rhythms of post-literate poetry whilst highlighting the importance of cross-overs, combinations, dialogues, and…
