November 4th, Naomi Yorke

Sandy Skoglund - Revenge of the Goldfish

Colour truly is a character in Skoglunds work. Since I was a small child I have loved the images of Sandy Skokland. They are visually striking depicting other worldly scenes with a minimal yet vivid pallet. Objects surfaces become the focus of the work with this image in particular. Much of the scene has been dyed to match, all objects that do not contain life are forced into a single shade of teal, thereby turning this simple bedroom into a fishbowl. Surprisingly the d.t.m technique applied by Skokland does not flatten the scene as one may think it would, but gives depth to each crevice of the room, this services the image by making no part of blue more or less important than another. Depth is created in goldfish with striking and varied shades of orange, the fish pop out of the image making it seem as if the world created in the image is forcibly being taken over by the fish.