ADAM NORTON

Space Postcards

2015


Space Postcards featured in the exhibition New Works at Gallery 9, Sydney. All images come from the earliest days of half-tone colour mass reproduction, between the start of the sixties and the late seventies.

The works are put together from parts of images of Brutalist architecture, factories, bridges, dams, of rocket tests and space science, but make up a newer reading of strange new worlds, extraterrestrial visitations and intergalactic travel.

Initially, I scanned the images and used Photoshop to manipulate a certain strangeness into the images by simple acts of combining or cropping or flipping the images, whilst trying to retain the essential feel of the dog-eared original. These photo-shopped postcards directly resulted in the set of 12 prints, Space Postcards.

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Swan Spaceship
2015
pigment print on card
10 × 15 cm
Edition of 3 + AP

Modernist Spaceship
2015
pigment print on card
10 × 15 cm
Edition of 3 + AP

USAF Flying Saucer
2015
pigment print on card
10 × 15 cm
Edition of 3 + AP

Silver Ball UFO
2015
pigment print on card
16 × 10 cm
Edition of 3 + AP

Steampunk Spaceship
2015
pigment print on card
15 × 10 cm
Edition of 3 + AP

Bug Eyed Alien
2015
archival print on paper
15 × 10 cm
Edition of 3 + AP