For this assignment, we needed to produce something marketable. Basically, I needed to be inspired by something I wanted the world to hear through my artwork, and make people listen. I figured it had to be something simple yet endlessly deep... like a short sentence written by Shakespeare. I was inspired after searching something on google and seeing the number of possibilities the search engine had to offer. I thought of everyone writing all this information on the internet and how misinformed/confused some people can be after reading through a few sites on the internet. In a way it's like the more I read on the internet, the less I know. Obviously the internet has opened up tons of great opportunities and has connected people globally, but there's another side to the internet that's not commonly expressed, thought about or "marketed". I choose to incorporate a few different alternative processes to explore the idea of "ignorance is bliss". Since my mindset was on the subject of the internet, I choose to make a silk screen and put it on a laptop case. I want to make people look at my computer and think of what the image might be about...I wanted to say a hard thing in a simple way.
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Firstly, I took portrait photos of a girl and photos of a model of the human brain. I took these with a Canon Rebel T2i with a shutter speed of 1/60 and an aperture of f6. I uploaded the images onto photoshop and made a double exposure of the girl and the brain. I made the brain gradually smaller to portray my message. I printed these photos onto an acetate. The photo above is a drawing of my planning, painting in my sketchbook and the acetates (I did this to show my double exposure). |
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After I made the silk screen, exposed it to light with the acetates, washed it off, and painted the silk screen image onto a cotton tee shirt... this is what it looked like. Since the brains didn't show up on the silk screen the way I wanted them too, I decided add a few "processes" of my own. I printed coloured photos of the brains onto t-shirt transfers and then ironed them onto a separate cotton shirt. I cut the ironed brains out and stitched them onto the girls face with red thread. I thought that this would add more of an impact to the piece... since you could see the brains (and therefore interpret the message) more clearly. I also thought the hand-done stitching would add to my message in respect to keeping things simple and genuine. I continued to stitch on the cotton cloth to the laptop case by hand. This assignment was extremely fun because I got to learn new, fascinating photography processes, add my own creativity to it and speak my mind to everyone around me without saying a word. |
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