Once starting the project, I created a brainstorm which was
to become my main starting point for this project, by doing the brainstorm I
reached several ideas and were able to have a stock pile of artists to look at
during the project, some of these were Man Ray and his photograms which proved
to highlight the main idea of shadows and how they can show the shape and the overall
structure and form of an object, however i wished to push my ideas further and
i looked at paper folding and the art of origami, this lend me to find an
artist called Paul Jackson who had a series of photos exploring how a sheet of
paper can change when it has one crease pressed through it, this was then the
starting point for my first shoot.
My first shoot went well, i had created a small portable
studio within a dark space in my house, and working with white paper and the
use of a portable lamp i was able to use the shadows to highlight the curves of
the paper, this worked well due to the fact that as the lamp wasn’t in one set
position and i did not have any other light sources i was able to have full
control over the light and the shadows which were produced. The problems which occurred
was when i tried to use tracing and/or tissue paper the heat of the lamp would
cause the paper to curl and distort itself, this was a struggle when i wanted
to have the lighting in a certain way, so due to this i did not use tracing
and/or tissue paper again i just stuck to plain white paper.
After this was done, I wished to push the idea further by going back to my brainstorm i was able to see that one of my points was the human body and facial features and how they can adapt and change to become something different. However as this did not nessicarily link into the work i had done previously i had to do some further research once this was done i came across Rupert shriver. Rupert shriver would paint portraits either in a way which seemed for the image to be distorted and screwed up or he would paint a perfect portrait and then destroy it. By doing this he completely changed the shape of the face, and how you as a viewer view his work.
Using this as a starting point and with not much time left on the two week set brief, I collected some old portraits that i had taken of family members and then went through the same process of before by crumpling and folding the images so that they would take a whole new form and look to the overall image causing the viewer to second guess what they are actually looking at.
After this was done, I wished to push the idea further by going back to my brainstorm i was able to see that one of my points was the human body and facial features and how they can adapt and change to become something different. However as this did not nessicarily link into the work i had done previously i had to do some further research once this was done i came across Rupert shriver. Rupert shriver would paint portraits either in a way which seemed for the image to be distorted and screwed up or he would paint a perfect portrait and then destroy it. By doing this he completely changed the shape of the face, and how you as a viewer view his work.
Using this as a starting point and with not much time left on the two week set brief, I collected some old portraits that i had taken of family members and then went through the same process of before by crumpling and folding the images so that they would take a whole new form and look to the overall image causing the viewer to second guess what they are actually looking at.
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