{"id":441,"date":"2008-09-05T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2013-12-12T12:02:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T13:02:31","slug":"no-junk-mail-mcap-finalist-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"NO JUNK MAIL \u2013 MCAP FINALIST 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond excited to have my work <a title=\"No Junk Mail\" href=\"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/?portfolio=no-junk-mail\"><em>No Junk Mail<\/em><\/a>\u00a0exhibited in <em>The Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize (MCAP)<\/em> this year. The series of 30 cards is the result of documenting the seemingly mundane contents of my mail box every day for 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Every afternoon I faithfully photographed both the shapes of the mail within my letterbox as I found them, along with the textures of each stack. I then used a design program to create outlines from the abstract shapes and place the mail textures within each shape,\u00a0before printing out a colour photocopy using a very specific kind of toner. This was all in order to transfer the digital collages onto beautiful textured card by hand.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer process involved some fairly noxious acetone and a lot of elbow grease as each copy was drenched with the chemical and burnished within an inch of its life! The final images have a delicacy and incompleteness about them belying their labour intensive process. The cards seem a world away from their lowly junk mail origins as loud, brash, irritating commercialised qualities dissolve into an elevated ethereal\u00a0aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>On display\u00a0until 28 September at <em>ATVP, <\/em>Newtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond excited to have my work No Junk Mail\u00a0exhibited in The Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize (MCAP) this year. The series of 30 cards is the result of documenting the seemingly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49,50,46,54],"tags":[45,44,18,32,33,19],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","category-art","category-collage","category-digital","category-exhibition","category-image-transfer","tag-art","tag-collage","tag-exhibition","tag-finalist","tag-marrickville-contemporary-art-prize","tag-prints","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingfromnowhere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}