FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1 What does the television represent? 2 Why a television? 3 Should one be engaging with whats pictured on the television screen?


The answer to all: The television is one of many subjects that could be removed from the original photograph and placed in a whole new narrative. The reason for it being a television: working with photographs (still images) one constantly came across the T.V (which was on at the time) frozen in its space and revealing its pictures...they have become frozen themselves. A picture inside a picture.

The image of the television with the aerial makes one want to stare at the screen until the image moves. You never have a television paused on its subject permanently. The only reason one should engage with what is pictured on the television screen is to distinguish the time in the past in which the picture was photographed originally. To decipher the narratives birthplace and where it is now placed in the present.

Arthur. C Clarke speaking in 'Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures' 96

'Behind everyone alive today, stand thirty stars. For that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, about one hundred billion human beings have walked on this planet. One hundred billion is about the number of stars in the milky way galaxy. So this means, for everyone who has ever lived, there could be a star. But o f course, stars are suns, with planets circling around them. So isnt it an interesting thought that there is enough land in the sky for everyone to have a whole world.'