My work is about simulation. Creating a clone of a copy of the 'real' on paper. It is not a fake, it takes a place of the 'real' for a moment whilst looking at the image. As Baudrillard puts it, simulation is different from feigning. Feigning is pretending, such as, feigning illness or pretending to be ill. The subject is not ill, just seeming to be, but 'simulation threatens the difference between 'true' and 'false', between 'real' and 'imaginary'. Since the simulator produces 'true' symptoms, is he ill or not. He cannot be treated objectively either as ill or not ill. '1
This is what I aim to do: Create likenesses of icons, where in image - on paper - the simulation of icons, 'threatens the difference between 'true' and 'false', between 'real' and 'imaginary'. The 'real' subject becomes 'not necessary'. The image or icon is ore important and more seductive. It doesn't matter if it isn't the 'real' icon - as long as it looks like him or her - but it creates a temporary confusion. This is the confusion I search to create in my work, to explore this gap.
Within this, I have explored to what extent do I create complete fantasy pictures not connected to anything 'real' other than fantasy floating around in the mass mind and fantasy connected to something 'real'. A scenario that has some 'truth' in the concrete sense and I extend this 'truth'."
1 Baudrillard J The Procession of Simulacra Art After Modernism Rethinking Representation The New Museum of Contemporary Art NY Boston 1989 p254
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