Steve Carr
Smoke Bubble No. 5, 2016
digital print
1200 x 1200mm
1225 x 1225mm framed
1225 x 1225mm framed
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
Smoke Bubble 1-10 A series produced during a residency in Japan in 2010. Taking the cover of Smokey Robinson's 1973 debut LP as the inspiration, the images are both planetary...
Smoke Bubble 1-10
A series produced during a residency in Japan in 2010. Taking the cover of Smokey Robinson's 1973 debut LP as the inspiration, the images are both planetary and preposterous in their appearance - soap bubbles filled with cigarette smoke floating against an inky black backdrop - transitory, richly aesthetic moments plucked from a stench of cigarette plumes and a squelch of suds.
A series produced during a residency in Japan in 2010. Taking the cover of Smokey Robinson's 1973 debut LP as the inspiration, the images are both planetary and preposterous in their appearance - soap bubbles filled with cigarette smoke floating against an inky black backdrop - transitory, richly aesthetic moments plucked from a stench of cigarette plumes and a squelch of suds.