Pamela Valfer
Landscape Simulation: The Shining/Gilligan’s Island/Magnum PI, 2012. Graphite on Paper, 48 in by 48 in.
The simulacrum is never what hides the truth—it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes. (From Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard). I am interested in utilizing drawing and the language of realism as a signification system to explore hyper-reality. The use of cultural detritus and appropriation is my methodology to critique the world of images that saturate our lives. My drawing approach enhances the dystopian simulated reality of the perceived “real”. The representation is distilled; the drawing mark becomes absent of an empathetic position. Constructions are broken apart offering a facsimile of reality without offering truth. pamelavalfer.com 124