Bridget Kennedy
The deconstruction and encoding of an image:
"I have been engaged in a process of stripping down (homogenising) an image of a landscape
that has no visible habitation.
The grid as format or structure to use in this process of deconstruction. For me it facilitates.
a kind of democratisation, a block of grey that represents sky can be seen to have something in common with a block of grey that represents water. By breaking down the image into squares, through a basic mosaic filter, different areas of that image can be treated in the same way.
Division of the subject into uniform units enables a form of mapping; elements can be plotted,
recorded, brought under some kind of control. Mapped co-ordinates can be used to alter the
character of the subject / image without loo-sing the inherent structure.
This very simple form of mapping or recording mimics the way a digital image is created; in as
much as the pixels are units on a grid made up of different com-binations of coloured light.
By displaying it on an epic scale I am questioning whether there is some inherent grandeur in
the structure of the image, even though it has been strip-ped of its illusionary cloak.
A bit like admiring the Emperor because of his nakedness not in spite of it."
Bridget Kennedy, born in Voorburg (NL) 1970
now works and lives in Northumberland and Glasgow
