Two works that Janice showed me of Redmond’s that I found to be absolutely gorgeous. If you look carefully in the 2nd panel you can see the figures in the upper left hand corner, and the streaks of messed up toner that almost seem like layers of wheatpasted posters on NYC sidewalk sheds.
Apparently, Redmond found this fax machine somewhere (either a barn or on the street), and experimented by making collages to feed through it.
I was just struck by the ingenuity of it– not only to rescue this object that we almost universally think of as useless, but then to basically ask, “Hey… is this thing on?”
We’re in a time of a lot of nostalgia for old early digital era things– it’s tempting to say it’s because people are sick of contemporary technology but I suspect it’s just that we like anything that seems kind of old– but at this point, it’s like almost a cliché to bring a Canon Coolpix digital camera to a party. Chunky, pixelated VCR text.
Child’s play!
It’s not a contest, obviously, but… Redmond just always had a way of ahead of the curve
