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Frameline presents Frameline 46: Fun in Shorts: Tutti Frutti at The Castro Theater on June 18 2022 in San Francisco, CA. © 2022 Zach Franzen for Frameline. (FL9A2654.CR3)
Over the break and over the last couple of weeks I have been experimenting with how to represent these ideas. My recent experiments explore this aging cycle by repeatedly printing images with a basic consumer-grade inkjet printer until the ink from the printer has completely been depleted. The image quality of the photographs progressively becomes poorer and poorer until the image “disappears.” After the image no longer printed I was interested in the processes of “renovating” or “gentrifying” by replacing the exhausted ink tanks with new ones, in an effort to be able to print the image again “as it should be seen.” In the same way that the aging and gentrifying processes have an effect on neighborhoods, I want to see the effect that continual inkjet printing has on images.
Frameline presents Frameline 46: Fun in Shorts: Tutti Frutti at The Castro Theater on June 18 2022 in San Francisco, CA. © 2022 Zach Franzen for Frameline. (FL9A2825.CR3)
Frameline presents Frameline 46: Fun in Shorts: Tutti Frutti at The Castro Theater on June 18 2022 in San Francisco, CA. © 2022 Zach Franzen for Frameline. (FL9A2794.CR3)
I can't decide if I like this or not. I do seem to have a passion for textures and patterns, and think they work best in high-contrast b/w. I'm not so sure of the expression and tired look on my face though. Pushing the contrast to those extremes isn't wise for somebody who's paranoid about the shadows under his eyes. (This is why most of the SP's you see of me on here also feature my glasses!)
One Direction Posters that have been cropped or edited so that only the torsos remain. This was a curating and editing exercise exploring the "take what you like and leave the rest" mentality. They also explore the decontextualizing nature of many Grindr and Scruff profile pictures that are tightly cropped images of torsos that serve as a means to attract other guys on these apps.
Installation of Spring 2013 Midterm Work.
This image is of the former Las Vegas City Hall. After the city built a larger complex to house the city employees they sold the old structure to Zappos.com. Zappos has moved their operations to downtown Las Vegas and are in the process of “revitalizing” this part of the city. Even though this building from the 1970s is being repurposed, Zappos and other invested parties (The Downtown Project, also owned by the CEO of Zappos) are seeking to gentrify downtown Las Vegas. Real estate is being grabbed by these entities, and businesses who had been in the neighborhood for some time are being pushed out to make way for the newer and “better.” This series of four is the same image printed shows the printer as it runs out of black ink, leaving only the magenta color left on the paper. The renovated building can no longer be represented as its original self, but as an iteration of the original. Here, these prints show not the original image “as it should look” but a rose-tinted version, paralleling the gentrifying vision of Zappos and The Downtown “Revitalization” Project.