Homage to GB, 2017

Homage to GB, is a sculptural work made in response to and inspired by George Blakely’s A Cubic Foot of Photographs, 1978, a work made up of over 50,000 disused photographic prints collected from a processing lab Blakely worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania whilst studying. These prints were carefully catalogued, collected and organised into bundles, bound by elastic bands and furthermore arranged into a cube.

Homage to GB will be scaled down to 1/10th of Blakely’s original work in size, and is comprised as a stack of empty, used photographic boxes. With each box originally containing approximately 50-100 sheets of photographic paper; now devoid of any material; in the absence of an image the simple markings of use, purpose and manufacture now take its place. This work plays homage to George Blakely’s A Cubic Foot of Photographs, 1978.

 
Found vintage photographic paper boxes with elastic bands on plinth
Dimensions approximate – 1600 (h) x 250 (w) 310 (d) mm