Subtraction

The core concept of Subtraction deals with virtual mediums as a simulation of reality and finding symbolic fiction in less-representative images. The main source of imagery was taken in both physical and virtual photographic spaces. On computer, I am able to give a material form to the two-dimensional photographic images. ‘Real’ and ‘virtual’ are only versions of each other, and by the looks of it, there’s no substantial relationship between them. In the real world, I am making images to intentionally escape the photograpy’s representational narrtive. During this process, photography is being detached from objects in virtual spaces and questions the symbolic content in images. I see objects as elements that compose the images but not the central elements expressed in the images due to some degrees of distortion. This series, as a rejection of the model-copy paradigm in traditional photography, is a rejection of photography’s pre-existing reality. I look to re-define and expand the rationale and perspective spaces that are captured in a camera by guiding you to shift between the physical and virtual photographic space. I believe it is time to reconsider what is photography when it is detached from what we are used to understanding it as.