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I am interested in what the ‘natural’ progression of inkjet printing without resupplying empty ink cartridges looks like, and what this says about the life trajectories and cycles of boys and buildings. Sourced images via screen-capturing my iPhone are fed through a consumer-grade inkjet printer, nuancing both appropriation and the creation of the “new” through the 21st-century lens of technology. The work also asks the viewer to reconsider the “ideal” within the gamut of degradation and revitalization. The resulting images aren't exactly what the inkjet printers are designed for- slick digital photographs. There is often a struggle between the printer and the original image, “as it should be printed,” - and the traces of this are left on the surface- clogged printer nozzles leave streaks resulting in imperfect images or “mis-prints.”
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. (FL9A2706.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.
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. (FL9A2778.CR3)
I am interested in what the ‘natural’ progression of inkjet printing without resupplying empty ink cartridges looks like, and what this says about the life trajectories and cycles of boys and buildings. Sourced images via screen-capturing my iPhone are fed through a consumer-grade inkjet printer, nuancing both appropriation and the creation of the “new” through the 21st-century lens of technology. The work also asks the viewer to reconsider the “ideal” within the gamut of degradation and revitalization. The resulting images aren't exactly what the inkjet printers are designed for- slick digital photographs. There is often a struggle between the printer and the original image, “as it should be printed,” - and the traces of this are left on the surface- clogged printer nozzles leave streaks resulting in imperfect images or “mis-prints.”
I am interested in what the ‘natural’ progression of inkjet printing without resupplying empty ink cartridges looks like, and what this says about the life trajectories and cycles of boys and buildings. Sourced images via screen-capturing my iPhone are fed through a consumer-grade inkjet printer, nuancing both appropriation and the creation of the “new” through the 21st-century lens of technology. The work also asks the viewer to reconsider the “ideal” within the gamut of degradation and revitalization. The resulting images aren't exactly what the inkjet printers are designed for- slick digital photographs. There is often a struggle between the printer and the original image, “as it should be printed,” - and the traces of this are left on the surface- clogged printer nozzles leave streaks resulting in imperfect images or “mis-prints.”
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.
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. (FL9A2723.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. (FL9A2766.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. (FL9A2710.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. (FL9A2715.CR3)
Portraits from the Grindr Look-Alike Project. The series is entitled: We Are Never Ever Ever Ever Getting Back Together. Portraits are all sourced images from the smart phone application, Grindr, and are all look-alikes for either myself or my ex-boyfriend.
Bedroom installation of recent work. This piece specifically explores the process in between the last couple of images printed from the first run (until the ink was exhausted) and the first "normal" looking images from the second run. The middle of the batch is the process of the ink reworking itself through the printer.
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.