Jake Bonnell - ‘Arbitrary Sculptures’
‘Arbitrary Sculptures’ is a project focused on the process of image-making. This work represents a thematic continuation from my previous project, titled 'Arbitrary Slices', which consisted of coloured darkroom photograms constructed through ripped, torn, and scrunched up tracing paper, jammed into the film carrier of an enlarger. This project, however, brings a new aspect of formal collision through the digital manipulation of original darkroom prints.
“Using photoshop, I collage and layer old darkroom prints, adding shape, colour and texture to find a successful balance in composure. This method of adding materiality and textuality to the once flat image is a process that closely mimics the act of painting.”
The work is heavily inspired by modernist painters and photographers, a call back to that exciting era of boundary-breaking free expression, a time of testing the limits of ideas and the blurred lines of art.
“My name is Jake Bonnell and I’m a photographer based in London. I graduated from Falmouth University in 2018 after studying a BA in photography. I have always loved working hands-on with the mechanics of photography and I’m fascinated by the boundaries of photographic form.”
