The final project from my Digital Photography class at OSU. I stitched togethe a long series of shots I took of a flowerbed in Columbus, OH. I manipulated that image to simulate file corruption, then printed it on a long roll of glossy photo paper. The paper I placed in the output tray of a small, non-functional inkjet printer to imply that this printer was producing the image. In the original gallery exhibition, I stuffed the paper tray of the printer with flowers from the same bed featured in the photo (don’t worry, I paid for them). I replaced these each day of my exhibition to keep them fresh. The idea I was trying to show was that we can take something beautiful and jam it into one of our digital representation devices, but no matter how shiny and colorful the output is, something will be lost in the conversion.

In these photographs, artificial flowers are used, since the mums I used were no longer available after I ran out of my first batch.