David Tomas Projections, 2006-2011

History’s perfect model is the photograph and its distributed material culture. Each photograph ‘represents’ history, its paradoxes and contradictions through its details. Each photograph is also a phantomatic harbinger of different pasts, presents and futures, the more so when they are related together whether by kinship or random association. The spaces between photographs model history’s lapses, gaps, and the absence of details, which are its constituent elements along with information. Hence its microfibrous infrastructure which is composed of both empty space and information, both operationally significant, both operationally signifying.