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| A collaboration between Carrie Notari and G-Rant
For many years I have been intrigued with photographing graffiti art in urban settings. I consider these found images to be public iconography - profound statements that speak of contemporary society's desires and preoccupations. By combining negatives of figures and graffiti, I seek to create embedded and fluid compositions. Beyond the dynamic interplay of figure and paint, the layered juxtapositions' meanings are sometimes disturbing, and often sublime. This body of work was exhibited at FLATFILE in Chicago as part of POLITICALLY INCORRECT in August 2002. The work was also exhibited at FLATFILE in October-November, 2003 in FOTOWERK as a multimedia 54 minute video that incorporated an original music score by G-Rant and was projected onto a sculptural installation by Cat Chow. Grant "G-Rant" Buchowicz has created a unique voice through his music for each my photographs with his brilliant interpretation of the images. Using Adobe After Effects, I assembled the 99,000+ TIFF images that transform and dissolve into one another and timed them to the soundtrack. The tension between the dynamic music and the seemingly still images creates a meditative mood and a reflective statement on visual and aural perception and the mutability of time. - Carrie Notari |
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To me, "Graffiti Bodies" is a series of locations, both real and in our heads. The music adds more to the images than just on an auditory level. When I experience it, I feel a synesthesia of sight and sound - the music can sound like the color of the image - the brights, the darks, the contrast and chaos or the comfort and beauty is echoed in the music. When I composed the music for "Graffiti Bodies", I was studying mute images trying to guess what they were saying, what pace the environment was moving at, and what sounds could portray the graffiti spray-can thawing the bodies from their frozen state. Although the art sense was important in composing for each separate part, I also wanted to make dig-able music, something that not only sounded right with each image, but also original, hip and not just generically thrown in. No one has heard this music before, and not many have seen images of this nature before, so it will be an exciting new venture for everyone. The video seems to be about traveling from one place to another and back again, and I think the music is capable of doing that without anyone having to make a big effort. - Grant "G-Rant" Buchowicz |
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