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The Painted Photograph
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Cone and Mark Hampson also layer their images, mixing handwork and digital
imaging but to greatly different ends and effects. Cone uses a camera in
a loose accidental way to produce Iris printed grounds which she then distresses
and brushes, painting with the water soluble dyes, disturbing and disrupting
their digital perfection. The effect is as dislocating as HumphreyÕs skewed
trompe l Ôoeil. Once again the photograph becomes background fused to foreground
through touch. Thusly, the agency of the hand sutures the two separate realms
of human and machine. The natural effects of ConeÕs hybrids are illuminated
and illuminating. The pixilated ground, with its light flare photographic
effects, becomes a visual delicacy, a sign of breath and life, rather than
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