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1.Whilst I was looking trough all my collected images i came across this image which before i had overlooked as a 'dud' image. When I looked at it again I found it to have beautiful textures and colours, but in a more subtle way than my images which I had focused on before.
I love the abstract qualities in the image, as at first you don't really know what it is, but as you look closer it reveals that its a view through a window. I also felt it had a universal feel to it, as its not clear, like most of my other images that its in Cyprus.
My favourite part of the image is the left hand side. It reminds me of old damaged sepia photographs. I just love this image and don't mind that other people don't see it in the same way that I do!
2. I looked at placing it in the box frame made from pieces of wood that I had found. I quite like the outcome, although I don't feel that there is much connection between the two.
3. I wanted to play around with enforcing the idea that its a view through a window, so I used lazertran and transfered the image onto glass. I think this works quite well and I am pleased with the outcome.
4. This piece to me represents the project and having confidence in myself. The found piece of wood, I feel proved pivotal to the whole project and pushed me into having confidence in my photographic work. I wanted to display them together to remind me of how the whole thing came together. I think the way its displayed works really well.
5. I wanted to play around with maybe having all three images together, but I don't think it really works that well.

The absurd

A small collection of my absurd images. I think I enjoy these pictures because they have character, and all relate a feeling of home to me.

Trios

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I wanted to play around with the layout of these images. I feel these images work together well and have a theme running through them i.e. three objects. I wanted to display them similarly to how Kirchherr had, in the way she had a constant theme running through her images in order to group them. My favorite composition in number two.

Experiments

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1. I started off my project photographing objects and places of interest. Cypriot doorways have always been an interest of mine, as they remind me of home and my childhood of my dad painting these doorways. To me, I've always like the textural qualities in the images and this is something I used as a starting point. I started building a doorway of my own, but abandoned it early, as I felt it I wasn't achieving the qualities which interested me.

2. I experimented further with card, weaving and playing with different materials, yet again I wasn't pleased with its outcome.

3. I found a piece of driftwood and tried adding textures to it with wax and sticks. In hindsight, I preferred the wood as it was.

4. I started looking at my images of the car doors and really liked the abstract qualities, and the way they seemed almost like a painting. I wanted to explore trying to create some of the effects of the metal. I felt that wax had quite interesting possibilities and played around with layering it over paint.

5. I really liked the idea of layering, so I placed coloured tissue paper in between the layers of wax to see what would happen. The process reminded me slightly of the work by Chris Ofili in the way his work is built from layers.

6. I played around with stenciling a piece of found wood, and then pressed it onto bits of wax I had coloured with powder paint. I felt the outcome wasn't that good, so I abandoned this idea.

7. Using the car doors as reference I was trying to achieve the surface textures of the metal. i used powder paint, and liked the way it had dried so I used a spray varnish to keep it in place.

8. I really liked the textures in experiment 7 so pushed the idea of wax, working on a larger scale. The car doors abstract qualities reminded me of Mark Rothko paintings and used this as a reference when making this piece.

My Book- Urban Surfaces

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I am fairly pleased with how my book turned out. I wanted to experiment with how my photography could be displayed, and felt that a book was a good way to display a large collection. 

Walker Gallery- Michael Miller

Michael Miller's 'Suspended Animation' I thought was quite interesting. From afar it appears to be a large black smudge. It reminded me of laminating that had gone wrong, a giant finger print, or when paint bubbles and drips.

To me the piece displays movement. The artist has used a black gloss, maybe to make the paint seem still wet, so its as though you, the viewer, are at that moment watching the paint drip down.

I really enjoyed the surface textures within the piece, as this is something I have a keen interest in. It reminded me slightly of my work in the way the artist had captured a paint drip which many people would disregard, or even think it unsightly, and had chosen to display it as a work of art.

Formative Assessment- October 28th

I found that I was really interested in the idea of found objects as well as  my photography so it was suggested that I maybe combine the two.

I had previously made box frames out of found pieces of wood and had made canvases to fit inside them, which I had tried out experiments on. I felt that these experiments didn't work and weren’t representing what I had intended.

I went to the Walker Gallery and came across Jost Muenster's 'To The Left' which comprises of mixed media on wood, positioned in a grid like format. The artist plays with the idea of composition. I really liked this idea and the effect it gave.

I removed the canvases and looked at the frames becoming a means to display my photography. I played around with the formation of the box frames, and feel that this works better than the previous canvases.

I intend to look more into the idea of displaying my imagery and look at how other photographers have done so.