COLLECT
Fragments are scanned directly from walls, objects, surfaces and other elements encountered in the city.
KURT WESP YIANATOS
SAMPLERS / DIAGRAMS
FIELD → SAMPLE → DIAGRAM → PAINTING
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S/D
SAMPLERS / DIAGRAMS
Collecting fragments of the city and activating them as material for the production of new images.
Samplers / Diagrams begins with a portable scanner equipped with a contact image sensor (CIS). Rather than photographing urban surfaces from a distance, the scanner makes direct contact with them.
It collects partial images already shaped by use, weather, repair, writing, damage and the actions of people moving through the city.
01 — SAMPLE
A fragment is removed
from one context
and made available
for another.
from one context
and made available
for another.
The term sampler refers to sampling in electronic music: an existing fragment is extracted, isolated and introduced into another composition.
Here, the sampled material is visual. Small sections of the urban environment become autonomous images while retaining traces of the places, materials and actions that produced them.
The sampler is therefore neither a neutral document nor a finished artwork. It remains available for displacement, recombination and further pictorial decisions.
02 — OPERATION
DISPLACE
Once extracted from their original location, the samples can circulate, be printed, relocated and placed into new visual relationships.
TRACE
Collection points and subsequent movements are registered, creating a spatial diagram of the circulation of the images.
03 — FIELD MAP
ORIGINAL POSITION
/ DISPLACEMENT
The map keeps the extracted images connected to the spaces from which they emerged. It records collection and displacement as another layer of the project.
OPEN FULL FIELD MAP ↗
04 — FIELD SAMPLES
CONTACT
ARCHIVE
SEARCHING MEDIA
The archive contains the fragments collected through direct contact with the city. Their different dimensions and formats are preserved rather than normalized.
READING WORDPRESS MEDIA ARCHIVE
05 — SAMPLER AS DIAGRAM
THE SAMPLER
BECOMES
A DIAGRAM.
Collection is not the final stage of the sampler.
Selected fragments can be brought back into the studio and used as diagrams for the production of paintings.
The sampler is not simply copied or enlarged. It operates as a visual structure that provokes decisions concerning figure, ground, colour, contour, rhythm, scale and composition.
Its function therefore changes: from a fragment extracted from the city into an operative device for producing another image.
FIELD
→
SAMPLER
→
DIAGRAM
→
PAINTING
RE /
The same image can occupy different functions at different stages of the process.
It can begin as a trace of an urban surface, become a digital fragment, circulate as a sampler and later operate as a diagram capable of initiating a new pictorial image.