Plunderphonics is a term coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in an essay entitled Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. It has since been applied to any music made by taking one or more existing audio recordings and altering them in some way to make a new composition” – source: Wikipedia. [...]
In accordance to musical plunderphonics I therefor bring to life a term plundergraphy (Eng. plunder and Gr. graphike) that describes parallel actions undertaken by artists in the visual arts area. Plundergraphy would be then any act of collage techniques’ expansion achieved by combining freely separated images or their fragments, which, as a final effect, heads toward creating a new piece of art. [...]
At the beginning I followed works of Stanisław Dróżdź exposed in the galleries and on reproductions. Later, in the Appendix2 Gallery I shot couple of photos of reconstruction of a work en.: Between. With my cell-phone I photographed the opening of the exhibition: From To. I also copied photos that I had found in the press and Internet. I placed selected pictures on a computer disc and modified them. [...] I decided to paint on canvas some of them, just like paintings. [...]
The main part of photos that are being used is a documentation of the presence of different kinds of objects or persons, where in the background are fragments of visually attractive implementations of Stanisław Dróżdż’s Between and From To. Photos, coming from different sources and situations, turn out to create quite coherent transcript of celebrations of recognizable visual aspects of a piece of art. Combination of the abstract structure of Dróżdż’s letters-signs, that is quoted but not copied, and the reality of objects, persons or situations captured in a moment of taking each photo became a rule that applies to most of my works. Objects, persons and situations are confronting the firmness of their own form with the firmness of the background. This confrontation, when art becomes a background, was captured on the pictures. It became the main reason for me to paint the picture.”
fr. of R. Woźniak’s text