Cam Andrews | Your Better
- Cam Andrews
- "Your Better"
- Edition of 8
- Series: Vancouver Portraits
- 38.5 x 28.5 in. (framed)
- Price framed: $1500
The series started when I was gifted some large screens form Ian Wallace, unknown to me at the time, they still had the burned images from his 1986 “Poverty” series. These images really aligned with my concept for the Vancouver Portraits series which looked at the dichotomy of the city of Vancouver. As well Ian as a Vancouver artist has been very influential in my own practice. I have watched Vancouver grow and change since the early 70s and develop its identity of a world class city that has a pretty apparent darker underbelly common with most port cities. The series looks at the themes of environmental beauty, tourism, real estate development, gentrification, crime, gambling, poverty, the film industry and sex trafficking… all the things that make up Vancouver.
Each print is built through printing layers of my own photographs and found text and image on top one of Ians images that were printed from his original screens, I then washed his screens and continued to use them through the series for each color.