Rebecca Diederichs | artist statement

[ action has action
action has accident ]

... as an illustration of three dimensional ordering... also a means of describing how energized particles move through space and time and their affect on matter ...

Photography has been a component of my work for years. These aren't a photographer's photos. They are really more closely related to the collaged paintings of the early Dadaists: paintings that jarred scale, material content and compositional conventions. I often photograph photographs. This results in images that alter the accepted understanding of perspective. An image twice removed, so to speak, becomes a distortion, a disruption of expectation. The final results are images that are at once comprehensible and confusing, that evoke connections between objects, the background, the lighting and set up a collection of responses and sensation. It is a process that involves and instigates an awareness of the physical world, connecting us to the temporal and to the concrete. Added to these aspects is an ever-present attempt to shift perception and perspective - an illustration of parallax: the apparent difference in an object's position when viewed from different points. Further considerations revolve around the random and specific affects of travel and the transmission of light and particles, resulting in a series of images, short digital tales, sculptures and non-sculptural objects all illustrating intersections of idealism and objectivity within a given hypothesis.

Rebecca Diederichs