Torben Johansen

The prints are very small fragments borrowed, some would say stolen, from parts of photos and from the internet. They are manipulated in Photoshop and printed in the workshop "Vardagsbilder" in Mölndal, Sweden.

I needed some images fast - very fast. In a high level of stress, because of lack of time I ran out the door, picked up a couple of photomagazines and started my computer. Quickly I saw something I could use... in the first image it was mainly the wall I liked. The other one is a fragment from an image borrowed from the sexpages on the internet. The pictures had something more than the purpose why they were originally made. There were spaces with such a wonderfull emptiness and silence. In the other image it was the floor.

In the computer it is very easy to compose and recompose and change already existing images. The enormous flow of images that one have dayly access to through computers,TV, video and magazines makes it in some cases more practically and naturally to take advantage of that instead of...the "real" world.

© Torben Johansen

torben.johansen@valand.gu.se