the end

The works in this series are made using a mixture of ashes and paint. Each painting is a realistic copy of the last image of a film. I found the film stills by digging through the early history of cinema, between early 1920’s to the late 60’s. So these works are mapping the global adoption of time-based art and cinema and its transformation as a tool of expression, communication and propaganda across many different countries, cultures and styles. In the years following the creation of cinema, wars were lost or won in great part thanks to a good or a bad piece of film. I think that in a way these series could be considered an archive of this period of humanity’s last great wars in the form of a burial, a memorial of images.

The texture of the ashes resemble the grain of the celluloid film.