PHOTO PRINT: “INSTAX WIDE” INSTANT FILM PRINT (CAPTIONED)
$35.00
We probably shouldn’t have gifted ourselves an instant film printer for Christmas. Yet here we are, offering instant prints that we’ve printed, fussed over, and pondered long and hard about, coming up with captions that could best fit any one image… then tossed anything we thought sounded smart out the window and opted for the worst and silliest choices we could think of… typed it out on our typewriter (OR WENT ROGUE AND HANDWROTE IT!!!), glued it, and held it up for all to admire: like the kindergarten macaroni art that everyone told us we were so *amazing* at! Lucky you for buying your WOO SEE-MING instant film print today!
Description
By purchasing a WOO SEE-MING ‘INSTANT FILM PRINT’, you agree to receive a random print that WOO SEE-MING will choose for you. The pictures in this product listing are mere examples of what you could receive. As firm believers in freedom of choice, we wholeheartedly believe that we have all the freedom in the world to choose for you.
Each print is:
- captioned by the artist, in typewritten or handwritten form;
- signed on the back;
- accompanied by a miniature double-sided certificate, bearing the handwritten title of the print on one side, and signed and dated by the artist on the other;
- and stored inside an acid-free, semi-translucent, glassine envelope.
Each print is unique. We may decide to reprint the same photo, but the handmade nature of each item — which consists of applying captions and using colourful language as we deal with glue and paper and sticky fingers and messy typewriter ribbon and permanent markers — means that your print can only be a one-of-a-kind item. Add to that the fickle, capricious, nature of the artist who may decide to re-caption the print or deface it in some way that’s confusing, bordering on baffling, with a touch of nuttiness — and yes, the print you purchase will be unique to you. Special, really. Just like you.
We use FUJIFILM INSTAX WIDE film to create our prints. The film size is 86mm x 108mm (~ 3.5″ x 4.25″), with an image size that is 62mm x 99mm (~ 2.5″ x 4″).
WHY WE LOVE INSTANT FILM PRINTS
Polaroid or Instax or ‘instant film’ as it’s called — we’ve never been able to toss one out into the garbage. Never.
We don’t know why — but these prints, even when unwanted, will end up in a drawer, or a box, or anywhere that isn’t the trash bin.
One of the biggest fears we believe any artist has is to be forgotten, have their work forgotten, and to figuratively — if not literally — be ‘tossed out’. Us choosing to preserve, in possibly one of the most *non* archival photographic print mediums, our photos, is perhaps a counterintuitive attempt at achieving immortality. (That sounds vain, doesn’t it? But we do like the sound of it.) Or maybe it touches on a deep-seeded fear that our work really does deserve to be dust-binned — and so we are latching on to this hopelessly silly medium with the hope that we can defy fate, and the stars, and remain valued by humans forever and ever.
No, you’re weird.