Honing in on small re-photographed sections of Jacobs’ original blown-up studio backdrop, 'Outside' utilises the vast scale of the billboard format as a pitch set for a play-off between the elastic possibilities of resizing and zoom in photographic representational imagery. Continuing the tree-top skyline, the photo-montage stages a failed attempt at an act of camouflage – an overlaying, or re-placing, of quasi-tropical landscape onto existing urban surroundings. An honest image, it sits exposed. It allows a peeping shoulder, a generous seam of bare table-wood, tears in paper, gloss sheen of plastic. Hints and tricks lie in layers.
Developed for Cypher Billboard; a series of site-specific artist responses for a billboard space in North London. Part of Art Licks Weekend 2017: Finding Solutions.
After Harry Jacobs: Outside
poster pasted billboard
2017