ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

As well as embracing the digital and screenprintingarena, this new focus also heraldedmy return to painting.I went on to create a series of installationswith this two-dimensional work. The“Installations series” featured highresolution,large-scale digital prints oncanvas, offering a birds-eye view ofassembled found plastics. The processof creating these digital prints was quitecomplicated and reasonably expensive, asit involved up to 12 individual, mediumformattransparency photographs insegments for each assemblage, which werethen drum scanned and stitched togetherto form the final high-resolution image.Once this image was then transferreddigitally onto large canvases they werestretched and wall mounted. On the floor, infront of the images, I placed an assemblageof the actual documented plastics,creating a dialogue between the two- andthree-dimensional objects, as well as amore literal dialogue among the viewing36