Raum Bilder explores how societies utilizes the proliferation of images in print and media as a means of distraction within a dystopian late-capitalist landscape. I’m interested in the ways re-appropriated images can be used to construct a new visual landscape, one that can critique and challenge the need for distraction through narrative spectacle — though, my dioramas were initially conceived as a means to dissolve the prescribed meaning or use of the photographic image. I’ve been pulling source imagery from advertisements and articles within mass produced publications. Through the dioramas I’ve been able to strip these images of their initial content and focus on their tonal quality, form, and texture — the photograph becoming a paint stroke, or other mark, to build new meaning and purpose within a reimagined landscape.
