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From the moment of manufacture, every man-made surface inevitably begins to decay. But hidden in that decay are accidents of startling beauty, created by minute and inexorable changes over time.
All these images seem to me to begin their lives many years before coming to my attention. It amuses me to imagine a fast-forward time-lapse movie of the subjects I photograph for this series, progressing through the years from shiny industrial perfection to the exotically degraded, dramatically distressed state which arrests my eye. Often I feel I am catching some otherwise unappreciated square inch at the peak of its beauty. Too early or too late in the devolutionary process, and there is nothing remarkable to reveal. I love the feeling of catching these bizarre miniature landscapes, like microscopic Rothkos, at the apex of their aesthetic maturity.
These images are neither true photographs nor digital paintings, but a hybrid of the two. Each is the product of thousands of decisions, resulting in something that never actually existed. Knowing what details to remove, to leave stand, to augment or modify - this is an art in and of itself, and the choices formalize and complete each image as a collaboration between entropy and creativity. |
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CURRICULUM VITAE : : ANN MONN
Education
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Art Center College of Design
UCLA / Melvin Sokolsky
Previous Incarnations
Graphic Design (see www.annmonn.com/design/design.htm)
Graphics Animation in partnership w Lynda Weinman
Graphics Animation Instructor at UCLA/X, AFI
Visual Effects for Feature Film (Senior Inferno Artist)
Developmental Beta: Discreet Logic, Kodak Cineon Group
Currently Exhibiting
Desert Business Interiors / Rancho Mirage
Gallery Affiliation / g825, Los Angeles
Residential Venues
Collection of Eric & Tina Persson / Minneapolis
Collection of Tom Dankiewicz / Los Angeles
Collection of Peter S. Beagle / Oakland
Major Sale Pending
25 48"x72" prints, via Independent Art Resources, Santa Monica
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