In my previous project, I explored themes of life and death. I made this plaster skull, and I still had it around when I was taking photographs. Just for experiments sake, I decided to take photographs of my models holding the skull. They made interesting photographs that I thought I would experiment with, to return to the ideas of
- discomfort
- uncanny
- life and death
Experimenting with layer effects:
I found that the pieces WITHOUT VIVID COLOUR were more effective, because the natural colours of the SKIN shows through.
It looks like the woman has tattoos, blurring lines between reality and not.
I enjoy the effect of the flowers, because it makes it look like the girl is in and amongst nature.
I experimented with the abstract, flowing patterns too.
They were incredibly effective due to the way that the "squiggles" overlaid the skull, rendering it unrecognisable.
The skull is a focal point of the image, although the bright, happy colours take the edge off of the memento mori. It is less disturbing, but still strange.
I decided to use more than one layer effect at one time to give a deeper, multidimensional affect using both flowers AND abstract patterns.
It made the image seem BURNT somehow, like the edges had deteriorated.
With colour, it looks like a chemical reaction gone wrong.
This is the layout of my layers, and how they interact with eachother.
Different opacities give different affects, so I experimented with them.
Higher opacity on the abstract layer.
Lower opacity on the abstract layer, higher opacity on the flowers layer.
I enjoy the multidimensional affect given by conflicting patterns. The patterns are fighting for the viewer's eye.
I wonder how it would look to add extra patterns over existing pieces I have already made, e.g. the portraits I constructed before out of flowers and faces.
I am going to experiment with adding more depth to my existing work.
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