In late 2020, Bolton began publishing a series of new archival pigment print editions on paper selected from hundreds of experimental digital images made during this disruptive period of post-truth spectacles and alternative realities — an unreal time when the lines between truth vs. fiction and the fake vs. the real have become permanently erased.
As the number of his new print editions has grown to over 1000, Bolton has organized this work into five overlapping sections: I. UNREAL, II. NATURA MORTA, III. ANALOGIES (2020-2022), IV. ANALOGIES (2023), and V. ANALOGIES (2024). This ongoing series of prints marks a shift in Bolton’s long-term investigation of fabricated images and visual narratives.
As in his previous print-based work, these new archival pigment prints are derived from digitally altered iPhone photographs and appropriated images. This fifth series, the Archival Pigment Print V: ANALOGIES (2024) section, was added most recently to expand the catalogue of Bolton’s ever-growing number of diptych and multi-panel prints. In these newest prints, Bolton has developed a different type of associative narrative structure in which analogous images are arranged to draw out random or chance visual parallels.
In making these archival pigment prints, Bolton has developed an all-digital working and printing process. Resembling printouts of corrupted digital files, these new pigment prints display their purely digital origins and means of production through applied layers of glitch filter effects that introduce chance and random RGB shifts, shakes, slices, scan lines, double exposures, and distortions.
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