Reminds me of the gecko tail stencil drawings i was doing today.
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This is my final four pieces for the drawing project.
four separate pieces but would be in the same collection/sequence.
1. 2H pencil on light cartridge paper
2. Black fine liner on light cartridge paper
3. Black sharpie marker on light cartridge paper
4. Black sharpie marker on two sheets of acetate sheets.
From my previous posts of the acetate sheets i had done i chose my favorite style from them all and decided to create a sort of layering sequence in the way of tone and line size. starting with lighter/softer towards darker and thicker.
I chose this style because it was the one i found the most attractive and i felt it had all the elements i was drawing from - not too many lines - not too little lines and you could still see the pattern through the layering.
I presented these works in this way on the wall because i think it works well in showing the depth and layering working up.
What i really liked about this process is that even tho it is the same style every time you do it it turns out different, due to the choice of lines that cause the pattern.
The process of doing these pieces made me feel calm and relaxed but then when you look at the end product it messes with your eyes and can make you feel rather agitated, so the process and the final outcomes seem to contradict in emotions.
Out of these four to me the pencil one works best due to the soft thinner lines compared to the other three, it still shows the calm feeling due to the soft colour but then still the chaotic agitation of the patterned lines crossing each other.
because of this i don’t think the thicker marker works to well as it comes across as aggressive.
I wanted to try it thinner on the acetate sheets but pencil and fine liner pens wouldn’t stick to the sheets so i am going to get thin marker pens to try. I would also like to carry on this process on sheets of tracing paper as well as layering up glass and/or with paper behind glass. See how it turns out on that size and style using neon pens as well as white on black.
covered my hand in latex and ended up with a latex glove but with all the creases and details of my hand. i wanted to see what it would look like with a light inside so i took this video experiment, after i was taking photos and black lines kept appearing over it so i took a video and got this creepy type video because of the light it also makes the hand get a yellow tinge and looks dead.
One sheet done. I took a photo from the back of the sheet with a light shining behind it. This whole light thing has nothing to do with what i am doing right now but i really love the effect it gives something i can look into in the future.
Problem with the app is you cant change the size of background photo or the colour of the neon light
playing around with colour. Glow
White
Black
Pink
Purple
Blue
Green
Light Blue
Orange
Red
Yellow
brighter
i forgot to duplicate then merge layers that why there seems to be a bright light.
Change - Memory
Notes :
- Photo Album
- something most familes have / display
- memory keep sake
- Happy , something good that happend.
- 100 photos - all from 2002
- keep sake - save that moment forever. hold a memory. capture something that happens.
- Blurred faces - white/light blur = dead
- darker / black blur = left on bad terms
- blur = gone, not around anymore.
- Doing this = emotional - especially blurring out people that have died
- Ideas of Change
- How change is shown
- Blurring - altering the photos
- Thoughts - how much life has changed
- people leaving/dying/losing contact
Evaluate - Question!
Album Book - Why that size/shape
- standard photo album, what i had to hand, had a bigger one i really liked but it has memo slips next to them so didn’t think that worked as well as plain folder slips.
- Colour
- Painted black because the original cover was of a vintage camera and i didn’t think that went well with a family album, as well as black maybe wasn’t the best colour to use, should have painted it white then went over it with maybe a pale blue or yellow so look more happy rather than morbid
- Says family 2002 on the front
- paint job could definatly be a lot better, it is a bit lumpy and rough, doesn’t look nice or feel nice.
Photos - Why 100?
- that is the max the album would hold so i just filled it
- Why those 100 photos? - why were those ones chosen.
- I went through all photos from the year 2002 and picked out these ones i thought they worked best , i wanted a mix of photos so round of the year so took a few from each month.
- ideally i would have liked to use all the photos to create an album of the whole year. so it would be more of a proper full year family album.
- Why 2002?
- after looking at many family photos that are all on a hard drive (pretty much all from my whole life) i felt that 2002 had the best mix of what i wanted to show - memory - loss/death/gone/left/missing/forgotten.
- Why blur?
- to give a faded look, as well as blurring is an effect people usually use for someone that doesn’t want to be seen or noticed.
- just on the face as faces change over time, the face is the way to tend to recognise someone, hold the memory by remembering what they look like.
- i didn’t blur out the whole body as i felt that gave too much absence and was more full on, i wanted it to come across more subtle. with clothes and body shape could represent anyone you wouldn’t really know but blurring out just the head that changed the person completely making them unrecognisable.
- i also didn’t black out/ blank out the whole body as i felt that gave it a harsh look and came across too strong as showing completely gone whereas i want to show a more memory faded gone aspect.
- Why those types of blur /colour of blur
- I wanted to show different types of loss.
Lighter/White = Death / Gone - pure
Darker/Black = Leaving / Left - Bad terms
Normal face blur = not around anymore-in my life / lost contact - it happens
How this made me feel. - Emotional!
Looking through the photos brought up many emotions, seeing photos of people that have past reminded me of just how much i miss them, especially my Granddad and my Dog, because of this it made it harder to blur the faces in the photos, made me more hesitant in doing it. It felt more like removing them completely, the realisation they are really gone, in a way it felt disrespectful.
There was very much a happy side to looking at these photos as there was ALOT of happy family photos - rarely get taken now so it was really nice to see these photos especially seeing how much my sister has change, i found myself laughing at most of the photos.
Blurring out people that i don’t talk to anymore or people that i chose to not have in my life was really easy! I rather enjoyed scoring out their faces, didn’t bother me at all.
What Next?
I see this work as more of a developmental piece to take forward into other ideas.
From this -
- Blur out everyones faces
- false memory
- could be anyones photos
- faces are how you recogise someone
- bodies clothes and shape are pretty standard compared to faces.
- removing the face and leaving the body leaves you thinking who do these belong to?, who are these people?, family?, friends?, event?, Family Tree.
mine?
yours?
someone else’s?
- keeping the face and removing the body you can see who these people are - expression and what is happening/going on.
- Collection of mixed photos together from different families/people to make an album. - do these belong together?
- faces blurred - can’t tell who is who - related or together.
- photos untouched / not changed - assuming/guessing.
- would anyone know or question it? assuming it is one family and all the photos belong together.
- Taking an old family album and swapping photos out - putting random families in to replace the photos taken out.
- Photo Frames - displaying
- putting blurred photos in
- standard photos that they come with.
- Then-Now
- recreation - recreating those photos now 13 years later.
- Photo album now compared to then
- 2002 <—–> 2014
I like the idea of working more with photo frames and photo albums.
- taking away
- adding
- editing
- manipulating
From this i would like to create an installation peice (bottom photo in post)
a display familes may have in their home
livinging room, hallway, bedroom.
in my house in the hallway we have drawers with a mirror above and plants so this gave me the idea of this is the way maybe people display things, like i have seen in other peoples homes they have family photo frames on the walls in the hallway like my gran has.
Starting to glue them down i really like how the light is on them right now