Parts of the image are presented accurately. This technique takes an image and fractures it. The process feels like painting, each pass through the printer creates another set of marks that I evaluate and calculate the next move accordingly. The combination of inks creates a truly irreproducible product - an inherently unique print. I send the same paper four, five, or six times through the printer, each time repositioning and removing different ink cartridges. I manipulate the paper as it feeds through the rollers, holding the paper so it can’t advance, stalling it for a few seconds or a few minutes, wrenching it backwards, pulling it quickly forwards again – over and over until the error indicator light tells me I need to unplug the printer, restart it, and try again. By carefully replacing and rearranging the computer chips and ink cartridges in my photo printer, I can confuse the printer into believing it’s creating an accurate image. This body of work, which I’m referring to as “the ships”, began with a process I’ve been developing over the last three years. And just like many other cultural icons, it’s being reassessed, amended, and transformed. And 500 years later, we are living here in America, and we have Christopher Columbus to thank. They formed a peaceful relationship with savage people and taught them civility. This image was perpetuated throughout my youth in school and in movies – a trio of massive, fantastic ships, leaving on an expedition to the unknown. It was cemented into my brain, and went alongside the narrative of the heroic journey that Christopher Columbus took in 1492 to discover the New World. “Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria” is a phrase I heard hundreds of times in elementary school. He attended Azusa Pacific University (BFA) Claremont Graduate University (MFA.) This is the artist’s third solo show with the gallery.
A response to the collective cultural amnesia about the contingency of historical memory, the effect is one of disorientation – both historical and immediate – in the face of radical transformation.Įvan Trine (b.1988) lives and works in Long Beach, CA.
#Pictures of nina pinta and santa maria series#
His newest series “Ships” utilizes the iconic image of Columbus’ sailing trio - the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria - as a stand-in for a set of American cultural symbols that are currently being contested and re-evaluated for their historical whitewashing.īy physically altering the print as it leaves the printer, Trine imitates the process the viewer engages with and ultimately expunges culturally-entrenched internalized ideas, values and patterns of behavioral modes currently being dismantled by and within contemporary society.
Evan Trine’s new body of work continues his exploration into using traditional photographic tools to manipulate a variety of recognizable source materials.
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