Jack Bool was born in 1991 in Oakland California, where he currently lives and works. He holds a
BFA in Photography from California College of the Arts.
As a consumer of images I desire to experience that which the image points to. I long to understand the subject in reality, as a physical form, yet my inability to do so leaves me in a liminal space of desire. This body of work serves to address the space between the referent and the representation. The rephotographing of sculptural works allow the objects and their representations to exist simultaneously, stripped of context – material, dimensionality, and location.
The photographic sculptures float in a deÂcontextualized white space – appropriating aesthetics of commercial photography.
Methods of “covering†appear throughout work as referents of the subjects, both concealing the subject and revealing it through form. Through my images I pose the questions, why do we conceal? Why do we cover? Who is watching and what is seen?
The photographic sculptures float in a deÂcontextualized white space – appropriating aesthetics of commercial photography.
Methods of “covering†appear throughout work as referents of the subjects, both concealing the subject and revealing it through form. Through my images I pose the questions, why do we conceal? Why do we cover? Who is watching and what is seen?