Halftoning is
a printing technique that allows full-color images to be broken
down into just a few colors of ink for reproduction.
Typically reduced to thousands of tiny dots
of varied sizes, arrayed in rows at different angles, the
original picture loses some of its definition. Nonetheless, the mind’s eye fills in the missing
information to perceive the
image as whole.
This phase of the Iris Series, first shown
in 2003, is based on a single, low-resolution digital picture
of iris blooms in which the size of the photo, the scale of the
halftone and the patterns of juxtaposition are manipulated.
These infinitely variable images explore the perceptual
boundary between providing enough information for the viewer to
process a facsimile of the original, and losing the image to
unfamiliarity.
As the objective truth of the image is
diminished by this transformation, its beauty enters a new and
different state: the realm of pure abstraction.
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