During my time at ArtEZ, I had a lot of fun experimenting with the laser machine. It gave me a chance to give waste material a new life. I made these portraits in my last year, as experiments for my thesis and final work.
©2023
Juliët Nijland
These two tiny portraits (8 by 8) are portraits of me. They are engraved into the back of found synthetic materialpieces, showing the inverted image.
Juliët Nijland
These two tiny portraits (8 by 8) are portraits of me. They are engraved into the back of found synthetic materialpieces, showing the inverted image.
©2023
Juliët Nijland
While the line between the physical and digital realm is blurring, analog paper gets replaced by pixels. I have tried to portray this process by creating these 4 portraits of artist Jenny Holzer, art critic John Berger, philosopher Hannah Arendt and media theorist Marshall McLuhan (all of them are mentioned in my thesis). Pixels are lasered out of 250 gr. paper, leaving a new picture behind. The destruction of the old medium, and the structures that come with it, will make place for something new.
Juliët Nijland
While the line between the physical and digital realm is blurring, analog paper gets replaced by pixels. I have tried to portray this process by creating these 4 portraits of artist Jenny Holzer, art critic John Berger, philosopher Hannah Arendt and media theorist Marshall McLuhan (all of them are mentioned in my thesis). Pixels are lasered out of 250 gr. paper, leaving a new picture behind. The destruction of the old medium, and the structures that come with it, will make place for something new.
©2023
Juliët Nijland
Juliët Nijland
