250 Minutes; 25 Portraits // What is in a label?

This series is a response and challenge to Walter Benjamin’s, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. The artist asked the question: What distinguishes one form of image-making from another? Further what value judgements do these distinctions carry with them? For this project, Colin set up a strict set of rules: the artist must always create the artwork in the studio. He must always put the substratum in the same location. He must always use the same materials: Sumi ink, white acrylic paint and six sheets of computer paper taped together with masking tape and held to the wall by blue painters tape. He had a subject stand in front of him for 10 minutes or less. During those ten minutes the artist would use his materials to capture their likeness as quickly and efficiently as possible. Ultimately the artist’s interest was in challenging the respective lines between printmaking as opposed to drawing as opposed to painting.