Oshang
2009
Photomontage, archival inkjet print
22"x34" and 32"x50" (each editions of three)
Some years ago I began to pay close attention to the
chalkboards – unerased as well as erased – in the classrooms I was teaching in at Boston University. My seminar room was often covered with a patchwork of technical and mathematical symbols that I found visually exciting and so began to photograph them.
After accumulating a large inventory of images – some covered with the scrawl of mathematical and engineering symbols, others with bits of language and text – I began combining these images digitally into large photomontages that are richly layered and often mysterious combinations of found text and marks.
Much of my work in photography has been about chance, found marks and the elusiveness of all mark making. I have always been fascinated by the role chance plays in life and have tried to incorporate its mystery into my art work.
chalkboards – unerased as well as erased – in the classrooms I was teaching in at Boston University. My seminar room was often covered with a patchwork of technical and mathematical symbols that I found visually exciting and so began to photograph them.
After accumulating a large inventory of images – some covered with the scrawl of mathematical and engineering symbols, others with bits of language and text – I began combining these images digitally into large photomontages that are richly layered and often mysterious combinations of found text and marks.
Much of my work in photography has been about chance, found marks and the elusiveness of all mark making. I have always been fascinated by the role chance plays in life and have tried to incorporate its mystery into my art work.