Split Cut
Scope: Research
Type: Found image collage
Date: 2025

Splitting Cutting 01. 2025. Found photography, digital collage.

Splitting Cutting 02. 2025. Found photography, digital collage.

Splitting Cutting 03. 2025. Found photography, digital collage.

Splitting Cutting 04. 2025. Found photography, digital collage.

Title of work. 20XX. Medium. 000 x 000 mm.

Title of work. 20XX. Medium. 000 x 000 mm.

Inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark's architectural interventions, particularly Conical Intersect, 1975¹, this investigation explored how cutting and division can reveal new spatial readings through sections, framing, and fragmentation. Archival photographs sourced from the State Library Victoria were manipulated through layering, masking, and subtraction to simulate architectural intervention and generate alternative views of domestic space.

The process highlighted the relationship between documentation, spatial observation, and collage-making, while also revealing the limitations of working solely with archival imagery. Reflection pointed toward onsite drawing and photography as potential extensions of the investigation, reinforcing the importance of process and documentation within conceptual art practice.

1. Public Delivery. "Gordon Matta-Clark: Conical Intersect." Public Delivery, September 27, 2023. Accessed September 26, 2024. https://publicdelivery.org/matta-clark-conical-intersect/.

#Cutting #Slitting #Conceptual-art #Radical-architecture # Archives #Photography

Project completed in design research studios at RMIT, supervised by Dr Andy Miller.

Cutting Splitting 05. 2025. Found photography, digital collage.

Image Credits

Photographs used in collages courtesy of the State Library of Victoria.

Collins, John T. Morang South. “Mill Park” Stables. Interior, 1975.
Coventry Street, South Melbourne, from Pickles Street to Smith Street - north side. 1974.
Wille, Peter, and Walter Burley Griffin. House. PALING HOUSE. 248 Kooyong Rd. Toorak. 1923, 1950.
Sievers, Wolfgang. Interior of foyer and upper level office floor, Brixton House, 390 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, 1976.