I wanted to make a post about my process of creating these strange and unusual images. This direction I took for my photography unit started after being given a theme for a homework assignment called reverie. I took this theme and interpreted it into into what you see here. Basically Im trying to bring my dreamlike ideas to life through my photography. I think about what would freak me out and what would create the most impact on other people
A lot of my ideas start with a quick sketch, to try and visualize how I want the image to look. I dont usually give my images a title on purpose, I like the viewer to interpret my images in their own way. on of my images was chosen to feature on a poster for mental health. Its a non-profit organisation called One Step Borders. The image where I am taking off the mask, was made after my work was chosen to feature on the poster. So for that particular image with the mask, I tried to think more about what mental health means to me. I feel like a lot of people suffer from it and the damage is unseen. We act like everything is okay and we aren't hurting inside, that's where the mask comes into play. I felt like the scars signify the unseen damage of the mental mood we experience.
So to start creating one of these images, I take a series of photographs that correspond to the overall image or drawing ive created. for this image above, I had been looking a lot at eyes at the time. So I took a photograph of my eye, then I studied the image to determine how I can make up the image I wanted from my head.Eyes fascinate me and also scare me. They are the most vulnerable part of the body and I almost have a sort of phobia to having things stuck in my eye. So I took that thought further and created this horrifying image. I decided on hands because it was such an odd thing to appear from the eye, which is what I strive to create. Almost like Dada themed image, which is something I seem to gravitate towards a lot ive noticed.
I then had the idea of using fabric to grab onto that would imitate the skin of my eyelids. I then take the images to an app on my phone called Sketchbook pro, which is similar to photoshop but has less features. I layered up the photos and erased the parts that I didn't want in the final image, which revealed the image I wanted. I make it sound a little bit more simpler than it is, but theirs a lot of tweaking involved that is very time consuming. Making the image as convincing as possible is key to creating the illusion, if it isn't convincing enough then it gives it a lot less impact and i could lose the interest of the viewer quickly.
For some of my images, I include other objects into the image like this one with the lightbulb fitting. I had the idea of having my hands as multiple tools that are related to what I mostly do with my hands. This was really just a play around to create a quirky image.
I started to look more into creating a dream-like world in my imagery with my latest photograph. A lot of editing was involved in this one and I did use photoshop this time. This took me roughly 3 hours to do with a lot of fiddling involved to get it right. This image was inspired by how I felt over the Christmas break. I felt stuck and lost at the same time, which made me feel very down, creating this image helped me express how I felt. I'm starting to get more used to expressing my emotions in my work and its actually very therapeutic, which is a plus.
Now that the Photography Unit is about to end, I will continue doing these kinds of photographs, but I want to take my ideas further into sculpture. The image above is one of the quick experiments I have tried for My Project Unit, where I create my own Unit Brief. I'm excited to evolve my ideas into a sculpture and see where that takes me. I might blend both of them together eventually and create some sort of 3 dimensional sculpture using photographs
I really love working like this and unleashing the surreal side of my mind. I find that having them black and white helps a lot to create a deep atmospheric look. Having them black and white also makes them a lot easier to work with, mainly because I dont need to worry about colours and tones matching up so much. This is a completely new way of working for me and I feel like Im finally growing as an artist
So to start creating one of these images, I take a series of photographs that correspond to the overall image or drawing ive created. for this image above, I had been looking a lot at eyes at the time. So I took a photograph of my eye, then I studied the image to determine how I can make up the image I wanted from my head.Eyes fascinate me and also scare me. They are the most vulnerable part of the body and I almost have a sort of phobia to having things stuck in my eye. So I took that thought further and created this horrifying image. I decided on hands because it was such an odd thing to appear from the eye, which is what I strive to create. Almost like Dada themed image, which is something I seem to gravitate towards a lot ive noticed.
I then had the idea of using fabric to grab onto that would imitate the skin of my eyelids. I then take the images to an app on my phone called Sketchbook pro, which is similar to photoshop but has less features. I layered up the photos and erased the parts that I didn't want in the final image, which revealed the image I wanted. I make it sound a little bit more simpler than it is, but theirs a lot of tweaking involved that is very time consuming. Making the image as convincing as possible is key to creating the illusion, if it isn't convincing enough then it gives it a lot less impact and i could lose the interest of the viewer quickly.
For some of my images, I include other objects into the image like this one with the lightbulb fitting. I had the idea of having my hands as multiple tools that are related to what I mostly do with my hands. This was really just a play around to create a quirky image.
I started to look more into creating a dream-like world in my imagery with my latest photograph. A lot of editing was involved in this one and I did use photoshop this time. This took me roughly 3 hours to do with a lot of fiddling involved to get it right. This image was inspired by how I felt over the Christmas break. I felt stuck and lost at the same time, which made me feel very down, creating this image helped me express how I felt. I'm starting to get more used to expressing my emotions in my work and its actually very therapeutic, which is a plus.
I really love working like this and unleashing the surreal side of my mind. I find that having them black and white helps a lot to create a deep atmospheric look. Having them black and white also makes them a lot easier to work with, mainly because I dont need to worry about colours and tones matching up so much. This is a completely new way of working for me and I feel like Im finally growing as an artist
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