I Stopped ‘Cause I Had Enough
4-color lithograph on Kromekote gloss paper, 24” x 19”
This image went through a number of levels of visual degradation – originally, it was a music video (Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”) shot on film, then digitized and uploaded to YouTube, where a screenshot was taken of the still image. To further the idea of these levels of separation creating a decay of the image over time, it was blown up digitally and then printed as a halftone lithograph. The image of Michael Jackson was also digitally removed.
Media can preserve the idea of someone long after their body is dead. These visual/ historical accounts are used as a reference to remember (or inform) ideas about that person. In an age where information and these historical reference points are constantly being recorded and archived, is a memory of a person more likely to be prolonged – or, rather, lost amongst the massive influx of information? How does memory act differently in the cataloguing tendency of the digital realm, as opposed to naturally, in our own minds? Memory distorts and loses detail as time passes, just as this image has by going through different layers of media.
