The imagery you can see above is based off of the historical relevancy within the book itself. so not all of these images are form her but the achieve itself. The combination of figurative and literary to my mind is interesting, as it allows myself to possibly think about something I could add into my project. Many of these images are objectivity and not a specific representation of a person themselves. I also like the way in which she chooses to have this sort of loose representation, to my mind this feeling of a scrapbook always has a clear presentation of thought about everything that the book itself contains. From the presentation purpose the huge size of the pieces themselves is something which I believe to be really effective and why I too want to show huge prints, similar to herself. I think using the turn in the wall is also effective, perhaps if I did rows of four within two on each side in the crease, it would allow a much more abstract presentation.
Every page from Sutlers book has a full sized image leaking over the ends of the pages, It both concentrates on this style of a lexicon with an overruling theme. She photographs everything which has some sort of relation through narrative. Due to the sheer size and effectiveness of her pieces, one on every page of full leak, it’s what allows myself to belive if you’re going to go and try to show this monumental representation of everything, you have to really go hard.
Biography:
Swiss-born, Amsterdam-based artist Batia Suter (b. 1967) studied at the art academies of Zürich and Arnhem (NL), and was also trained at the Werkplaats Typografie. Suter produces monumental prints of digitally manipulated images for specific locations, and works on photo-animations, image sequences and collages, often using found pictures. In 2007 she published Parallel Encyclopedia (Roma 100), followed by Parallel Encyclopedia #2 in 2016 (Roma 284), containing a large composition of images taken from books she has collected along the years. Surface Series (Roma 160), published in 2011, is an evocative montage of found images exploring the diverse resonances of geological landscape and visual surface. The underlying themes of Batia Suter’s practice are the ‘iconification’ and ‘immunogenicity’ of images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. Her work intuitively situates old images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. By this method, and with an attuned sensitivity to hidden harmonies and expressive accidents, Suter thus generates hypnagogic spaces where pictures can communicate by their own logic, in a force field of imaginative metamorphosis.
lexicon means a collection fo items all represent as though ti i . dictionary fo images. I felt as though ti was important to research this as my book is similar to a lexicon I the fact that it focuses on the narrative of life and death and everything that concerns it.
I decided through looking into how this artist presents her work, usually, having a continuous over-flowing page, I decided I should create a narrative which too allows my theme of black and yet too has these large strong images. I believe this presentation is the best and possibly the final,. I might start developing some new photo possibly with over ruling images and creating a new possibly more interesting composition, and possibly adding in more chaos photos of the pressed jar shoot.