Edition Details
This is a C-print on Fuji Crystal semi-matte paper using archival quality inks. Edition sizes are as follows;
8" x 10" - 200 editions at $40.00 each.
16" x 20" - 50 editions at $250.00 each.
24" x 30" - 20 editions at $750.00 each.
All images come with a numbered certificate of authenticiy signed by the artist. Please note that sizes quoted are for the size of the paper, not the image. We do not alter the aspect ratio or edit the artist's original image. All images have a minimum .5 inch white border.
Artist Statement
Nature is an idea. An idea perceived differently by every person and likewise we all collaborate with nature on our own level. The images from Displacement are a document of the fragile unifying moments of that collaboration. Each man-made subject has been manufactured with a short lifespan; inevitably destined to be discarded. Each viewer is familiar with all of these materials (from crepe streamers to plastic wrap to consumer fireworks) and brings their own perception into the way they read the images. When juxtaposed in the natural landscape we can re-contemplate qualities these objects possess. They curiously exist out of place, and at the same time, are at home among nature. These situations call upon the viewer to decipher their individual creation. Are they narrative or symbolic, fictional or documentary?
Darren Rigo was born and raised in rural southern Ontario. The relationship he has formed with the local landscape heavily informs his work. Now living in downtown Toronto, and attending the Ontario College of Art and Design, he regularly returns to the local, natural landscape to photograph and collaborate with the land that means so much to him. His images are an attempt to beautify what we normally view as ordinary while they dissect the ways we are connected to nature.
