Digital Build: Methods Of Thinking

The images that comprise the series Digital Build: Methods Of Thinking were composed for inclusion in the companion experience book The Terminal World. Digital Build is about thinking montage; a language, a means of speaking: bring things together. The art images, the photographic montages, because they are images – two, three, four or more – and because they function like linked images, like a dissolve in cinema, they are, in fact, about time. Time as it moves through these images until I push pause on the dissolve and the image becomes still. However, it is never still since it is about time passing. It is the dissolve, even if all we see is one moment of the dissolve: superimposition. An image, one image, is a story. Any time two or more images are brought together, a scenario is created. There is a single image, and the dissolve takes place. Then through montage, juxtaposition, one image beside another, beside another, as you flip pages. An image has its inherent "truth." That is, what does the image depict? It also has its "hidden truth." That is, what does the image imply? When you combine images - montage - you create new inherent and implied "truths." The bringing together of images so that they become new. Multiple images dissolved together and then disconnected. Montage within the image. Bringing together, mixing, attempting, in order to see. Creating New Form. Every endeavor is an attempt to push the work in an unexplored capacity. Changing the context of a thing - whether an image, word, or sound - changes its nature. This is the art of montage. The following images are examples from the much larger project.