50 YEARS ON

FOUNDATION 1971-2

 

 

 

steve willets..

 

told us at our first fine art seminar..

 

that painting was dead..

 

and that the thing we should be looking at was..

 

 

CONTROL  

 

 

which was his thing at the time..

 

and he had a magazine that he published under that name..

 

I listened to what he was saying..

 

stuff about cybernetics and message boards..

 

information exchange..

 

I think now he was into an internet kind of idea..

 

but had not a clue of what it was..

 

or how I could use it..

so after a while I tuned out..

and went to do some screen printing..

 

BRUCE DAVIDSON

 

 

I was taken with an image of Bruce's..

 

from his 'east 100th st'

 

it was the little girl..

 

behind the net curtain..

 

at home alone?

 

in a slum tenement..

 

in harlem..

 

new york..

 

I had a haltone screen made of this image..

 

and proceeded to make screen prints of it..

 

someone had spilled filler..

 

over my screen..

 

but I printed it anyway..

 

on both sides of the paper..

 

then cut shapes..

 

and folded back the flaps..

 

overprinted them..

 

some folded over, some not.. 

I shot these with my old zenith B..

3.5 lens..

just thought I would share them with you..

 

today..

50 years on

see my movie here

EAST 100TH STREET

yo!.. my back pages... innit!

SOMETIME DURING ETERNITY

so one day these ace photos show up..

in the 'sunday times magazine'..

and this one in particular..

becomes part of my life..

DRIVE ME TO HARLEM OR SOMEWHERE THE SAME

Bruce Davidson

 USA. 1966-1968. East 100th Street.

 

I used this pic to create new work..

while on the foundation course for dip. AD..

as it was then in 1971..

I made a halftone screen print..

and over printed it..

and cut flaps in it..

and created this..

I never called bruce..

never tried to get in touch..

that's not my way..

today..

this image still influences my work..

 

figures in a souk