MELLONY TAPER

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    • Renamed City
    • Visual Archaeology
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    • I Really Wish You Were Here
    • Here We Are Again
    • Life, Twice Removed
    • Redrawing the Landscape
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  • Work by series
    • Renamed City
    • Visual Archaeology
    • Human Remains
    • I Really Wish You Were Here
    • Here We Are Again
    • Life, Twice Removed
    • Redrawing the Landscape
    • Moving Image & Sound
  • Information
    • Statement & Bio
    • CV
    • Sales
    • News
    • Contact

Life Twice Removed | 2020

Monument (panorama) by Mellony Taper
Monument (panorama) | 2020
Emerging, blinking, from the long shadow cast by the pandemic, into the sunlight of Summer 2020, it was possible to experience the most familiar of scenes and settings in new ways.
Torbaydos (All in This Together) by Mellony Taper
All in this Together | Torbaydos | 2020
Observing and recording a post-pandemic populace at play: mingling in crowds, on seafronts, beaches, and tourist attractions - seemingly without a care in the world - was at once both immediately familiar and vastly strange. So many people apparently felt able to embrace a “return to normality” - maskless, moving in great social packs; whereas I clung to the cautious comfort blankets of my mask, hand sanitizer and social distance.
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Monument (triptych) | 2020
So themes of distance and alienation became stronger: ironically illustrated in the huge throng of bodies that were suddenly everywhere. This subsequent body of work Life, Twice Removed records this experience in its layers of bodies. Scenes which, at first glance, record holiday scenes in postcard colours, start to reveal their claustrophobic tensions.
Life Twice Removed / A Grand Day Out seties. 2020. By Mellony Taper
Visual Reverb | 2020
‘Re Re Reverb’ by Mellony Taper, 2020
Reverb | 2020
The multiplicity of layers fracture and distort, providing visual inconsistencies, that lead to a sense of dis-ease, something off-kilter, imperfect; a world viewed through a distorted pane of glass or a cracked mirror. The “new normal” implications of concepts such as ‘distance‘ and ‘alienation’, of many bodies in a space, force the viewer to consider these images in fresh and more complex ways. The visual confusions in my work document this. ~ Mellony Taper, October, 2020.
‘Peeper’,  ‘Life Twice Removed’ series by Mellony Taper
Made You Look | 2020
Life Twice Removed by Mellony Taper
Sheeple | 2020
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