Unlike its sister model genres, such as the conceptual model or the process model, the documentary model is a device whose representational purpose is closer to photographic documentation than iterative expression or experimental test-site. Constructed after the fact of the installation, the documentary model does not aim to represent an object-to-be but instead aspires towards extreme fidelity (to the point of excess facticity) of an object that already exists. When coupled with photography, the documentary model produces a double reading: the model documents another thing, but is itself also documented.

PHOTOGRAPHIC FIDELITY

Photographs of the model towards the production of reality effects.

MATERIAL PALETTE

Photographs of the model as material assemblage.