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Paradoxic Mutations
Margot Lovejoy Offset lithography on Mohawk Superfine offset printing 9 x 5 1/4 in edition of 500 My bookworks are based on the concept of montage in which meaning is conveyed through a system of contrasting, disparate images viewed simultaneously. The viewer/reader is meant to participate by opening and folding into each other, the chosen pictorial elements to create a dialogue between the conscious and the subconscious through a suggestive structure of signs, symbols and cultural codes. A system of contrasting images appropriated from sources such as art history and the media, juxtapose visual codes, one image acting as a foil for the other without a state of narrative closure being reached. Rather, the spacing between the images prevent the formation of a single photographic "fact" and instead becomes a method for "critiquing" the whole. The viewer/reader is meant to complete the work by seeking the meaning which resides in the contrasts between the images. | ||||
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