‘Liminal Dub’ by Gus Cummins

Images from ‘Dub in Liminal [4_TD$DIFF]Space’ produced in 2009–2010 towards MRes Digital Art and Technology at University of Plymouth. I embrace the ‘Dub [7_TD$DIFF]Reggae’ music genre. It strips the language from songs, sometimes returning it in a fragmented form, ornamented with delays and echoes. It provides an analogy for temporal lobe seizures; I experience dub versions of events, with language removed and time distorted. Being a visual artist, I looked for ways to apply the dub rules to images. I reduced series of photos to non-representative clusters of tone and colour, and merged them with abstracted data. I find increasing aesthetic value in removing elements from compositions, and in transitory situations. Once again I see an analogy for seizures, which leave gaps in the timeline of consciousness and remove elements of cognition and perception.