What ideas have I been exploring?
- I looked into the filters on photoshop (i.e. oil paint) that electronically simulate a hand made process. I was looking at weather using one of these truly makes an image one off as well as people's attempt to make mass produced products have a one off, authentic feel. Is this because one off things feel more valuable? I wanted to look at the images you see in places like Wilko where prints have a canvas texture printed onto them but I couldn't find any.
- I followed the advice from my last crit and started playing around with mass produced commercial images. I used my own images to keep this project personal but I chose the a couple that looked like they could be clip art. I.e. a posed one of my friends/ over photographed tourist destinations like Angkor Wot and The Camera in Oxford. I think that the mountains look particularly like clip art (colours etc.). I started playing around with cutting and ripping up the photos as well as drawing into them to make them one off then presenting them next to one another. In doing so I was continuing to look at this question of what separates fine art from commercial art - the one off and the mass produced/ the artist's touch. I was also looking at mass produced images as a pieces artwork that anyone can own and wether turning them into one offs somehow made them more authentic. In separating the two I was also trying to raise the question of which has more status.
- I also went on to create some series of images that showed a progression from a photograph to a one off drawing through manipulating the photograph then drawing from it (to reflect the same concept).
- I also tried laying out the one off image amongst all the mass produced images in the same grid format that I used earlier in my journal to more clearly illustrate this idea of the one off amongst the mass produced.
What works, doesn't work?
- I think that the photo to drawing series' definitely reflect my concept better than the ones where I have two images on each page because they show a progression. I also like the way in which they use the journal space - spreading across multiple pages rather than using them individually.
- I think that my way of representing the one off amongst the many mass produced works really well visually and I also like how it is spread across multiple pages. I like the sense of intense repetition that it gives my sketchbook (to represent mass production). However, I think that I have now fully exhausted this idea and I now need to move on to something else.
- I know that it is all part of my concept but I hate working with such gimmicky gross images - it makes me feel like I'm producing bad work because it's not aesthetically pleasing. I need to remember that it's all about visually representing a concept in an interesting way, not creating pretty pictures. Although it may be interesting to turn these clip art images into something beautiful??
How am I going to move forward?
- I think that I am onto an interesting concept and I like how much It has been distilled since the beginning of my journal. However, I don't really know how to move forward because I have visually represent my idea as I wanted to and I now feel like I have slightly run out of ideas. Have I already exhausted my concept? - Book one on one tutorial Thursday
- It may be interesting to add text to some of my pages - to more explicitly raise questions and highlight what I have discovered on each page. I could use letrasets for this?
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