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In the press, publishing, marketing, and media, a “Hero Image” is an image given prominence at the top or front of a publication, intended to hook and capitalise on human attention.
Receiving the image of Donald Trump has become an inescapable, daily moment of politicisation for billions.
Perhaps no images in history have passed through more complex and numerous prisms of perspective, prejudice, and intent than those broadcast of Trump.
At every point of handling, marks are made and traces are left to be drawn out... if only the right lens is applied.
LINK: Francis Russel, "Nick FitzPatrick, Hero Image", Dispatch Review
Dispatches
Receiving the image of Donald Trump has become an inescapable, daily moment of politicisation for billions.
Perhaps no images in history have passed through more complex and numerous prisms of perspective, prejudice, and intent than those broadcast of Trump.
At every point of handling, marks are made and traces are left to be drawn out... if only the right lens is applied.
LINK: Francis Russel, "Nick FitzPatrick, Hero Image", Dispatch Review
Over the past ten months, I have struggled to comprehend the reality of Israel's brutal assault on Gaza.
I have consumed countless news articles, opinion pieces, press releases, communiqués, analyses. I have been moved most powerfully by images of human suffering and destruction.
Every day I am left angry and frustrated by euphemisms and ambiguities. Are these inescapable spaces between words, images, and realities? Are these architectured corridors of blindness through which power may flow?
To what have I borne witness? Through language, we give reality its form. What we will not speak, we cannot see.
August 2024
Death Mask (No Alternative)
I have consumed countless news articles, opinion pieces, press releases, communiqués, analyses. I have been moved most powerfully by images of human suffering and destruction.
Every day I am left angry and frustrated by euphemisms and ambiguities. Are these inescapable spaces between words, images, and realities? Are these architectured corridors of blindness through which power may flow?
To what have I borne witness? Through language, we give reality its form. What we will not speak, we cannot see.
August 2024
I am interested in the way in which society conceals, represses, negates, and otherwise negotiates death.
In the contemporary moment, existential threats abound: war and genocide, climate crisis, democratic backsliding, the erosion of civil liberties.
As citizens and consumers, a sense of complicity in our own destruction at once fuels hope and feeds despair. A deep and arresting contradiction takes root.
Drawing has long been cast as an act of communion with the unconscious or spiritual, as a practice through which the unnamed or unrecognised may (sometimes unwelcomely) become known.
Signs (Notice)
In the contemporary moment, existential threats abound: war and genocide, climate crisis, democratic backsliding, the erosion of civil liberties.
As citizens and consumers, a sense of complicity in our own destruction at once fuels hope and feeds despair. A deep and arresting contradiction takes root.
Drawing has long been cast as an act of communion with the unconscious or spiritual, as a practice through which the unnamed or unrecognised may (sometimes unwelcomely) become known.
Instructional and cautionary signs are often encountered in strange places, often in solitude, and often in places where their readership feels nigh-non-existent.
Such signs are, nonetheless, small and subtle agents of governance at a distance: expressions of both will and anxiety.
Such signs are, nonetheless, small and subtle agents of governance at a distance: expressions of both will and anxiety.