REBECCA FOSTER
now isn't simply now (part 1)
2007
digital print
30" x 22"
In February 2007, I found a photograph in the New York Times that documented discarded newspapers blowing in the street. I cropped and enlarged images of these newspapers, originally less than one square inch in size, to become poster-sized. I then installed these posters using wheat paste in public spaces, layering them over other advertisements, flyers, and graffiti.

The site-specific installations decomposed or became covered with new posters, new information over time. As the half-tone of the original printed image was enlarged, the image became abstracted--a void of information. Working with the acquired image became a study of cultural detritus and lost information; the inevitably entropic nature of media.
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