{"id":95,"date":"2012-02-23T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2012-09-02T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T12:49:34","slug":"moises-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/superabundance.co.uk\/book\/moises-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Moises Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Figure #4’ – 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always thought that imperfection, more than anything else, made a subject interesting.\u201d<\/h1>\n

You have referred to \u2018Hello Mrs Romberger\u2019 as a pivotal moment. Why is that?<\/strong>
\nThat painting was a defining moment when I was investigating the early aberrations. I was struggling with aspects of digital noise and other imperfections. Suddenly Mrs Romberger came along! I\u2019ve always thought that imperfection, more than anything else, made a subject interesting. And there right in front of me was imperfections overwhelming the subject.<\/p>\n

What particular aspect drew you to this bizarre imagery?<\/strong>
\nThey were like spectres, elusive, indefinable but always there in the image. Just below the surface. I realised they just needed bringing out.
\nFor some reason I have lost the original file and only have a tiny scaled down copy. I\u2019m not too concerned actually; the important thing for me is the directions it has suggested I should take.<\/p>\n

It would be very instructional to see a before and after. As in the photo you took and then the finished piece.<\/strong>
\nThe final work is what it is. It stands alone and is not a record of the distance achieved from the original. I think making comparisons or playing spot-the-difference would seriously detract from it.
\nI want to stretch the relationship between recorded and constructed images. I have really tried to utilize this with the One Million Nudes series. All the paintings in that series are directly related to a single photograph. Those paintings are driven by the distance from the original image. Diversity of the final images is the interesting part for me.<\/p>\n

Most of the early work looked abstracted, even though it wasn\u2019t. More recently I have tried to maintain more recognizable imagery. The piece \u2018Figure no.4\u2019 for example, was assembled from many time layered images of artist Francine Schokker. I think the digital imperfections look quite beautiful, unusual even.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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