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Helen Dennis My art practice encompasses various mediums, with drawing as the most predominant. Through my practice I manipulate drawing in many ways. The drawings are built up with multiple layers. Each of these layers initially has very few elements, making it impossible to decipherer the images. It is the multiplicity of layers, which creates the image within itself. I have applied this concept to the photographic process. Using light to unit the layers within one image, represented on the photographic paper, adds a new dimension to these drawings. The relationship is re-assessed between the final image, and the means by which it has been produced. Using a photographic process to produce images that are not immediately recognized as a photographic print challenges the common conception of the photographic image. Ultimately the viewer knows what they are looking at, but does not understand what they are seeing. The subject of the City provides an array of angles, geometric structures, and perspectives, from which I create the images. The generic nature of buildings, and their geometry, relate to the repetitive generic and angular marks present within the work. Through layers of drawings and repeated exposure of the images, this repeated mark takes on different forms, thickness, tones, and energy. However, each image is created using the same pen on the same type of paper. It is perhaps illusionary in the same way that conventional photography can be illusionary. The tension and ambiguity between the photographic process and the imagery has proven to confuse the viewer. It is perhaps this same tension that is echoed between the multiplicities of layers used to create the work.
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