{"id":3646,"date":"2013-02-28T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2013-02-28T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:29:59","slug":"new-artwork-ian-rogers-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/new-artwork-ian-rogers-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artwork \u2013 Ian Rogers \u2013 Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, a collage. I’ve been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard lately, what can I say?<\/p>\n

\"Ballardian<\/p>\n

My source materials for this digital collage were images of the 15-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the arm of a Hitachi hydraulic excavator, a vintage Plymouth Fury, and a photo of the first underwater nuclear explosion (Operation Crossroads, 1946)<\/p>\n

What actually happens on the level of our unconscious minds when, within minutes on the same TV screen, a prime minister is assassinated, an actress makes love, an injured child is carried from a car crash? Faced with these charged events, prepackaged emotions already in place, we can only stitch together a set of emergency scenarios, just as our sleeping minds extemporize a narrative from the unrelated memories that veer through the cortical night. In the waking dream that now constitutes everyday reality, images of a blood-spattered widow, the chromium trim of a limousine windshield, the stylised glamour of a motorcade, fuse together to provide a secondary narrative with very different meanings.<\/p>\n

– J.G. Ballard, the Atrocity Exhibition<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, a collage. I’ve been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard lately, what can I say? My source materials for this digital collage were images of the 15-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the arm of a Hitachi hydraulic excavator, a vintage Plymouth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[602,228],"tags":[231,229,763,770],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collage-2","category-my-sketchbook","tag-digital-collage","tag-ian-rogers","tag-j-g-ballard","tag-montage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-WO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}