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PRETORIA ART MUSEUM
Take Me to the River (catalogue essay)
By Vivienne Lassman (curator)
May 2005

[excerpt]
Jose Ruiz used the title Take Me to the River as his starting point, allowing him to romantically explore the geography of his birth place, Peru. Employing the Internet as his tool of navigation, he researched the main rivers in Peru until he located online photographs of each of these thirteen rivers. By using only computer programs, the images were then dissected into microscopic levels - pixilated breaking points of color and composition. Technology allows him to break the two-dimensional picture place into indefinable depths reminiscent of the unknown spaces contained in these bodies of water.