"Drowning Samantha"
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
ACK!! separated from process. :)
I've been working on the image in the previous entry since Sunday, I think. The thing is just wrong. and I mean really wrong. ok, fine...I don't like it, LOL!!
Ok wrong why?
Well, for one thing, it doesn't say what I wanted it to. I wanted it to be about separation, about distance, and here I ended up with the people side by side.
I don't like the harshness of it.
Also, it is too much like what I always do...I put people side by side...and so it becomes a habit, and as such, a thing devoid of meaning.
The subject matter of this piece is DISTANCE (the subject is not supposed to be the people). You don't see distance in the image in yesterday's entry. It's a side by side set-up with nothing in between, and the image is not moving in any way, at least not to me.
The in between.
That junk stuff in the middle.
I wanted to focus on the interim junk...the things we believe are not important, that we dismiss or never see.
So I went back to the drawing board.
and literally. I use Museo Max paper; it's a lot like watercolor paper with an emulsion on there for digital printing. Well, I used to hand-color my silver prints with oil paint, so I thought I might enjoy adding color and features by hand instead of with Photoshop...I don't enjoy working in PS, and I think the color I add in PS looks shitty. So I bought myself some water-based color, and hand-treated a print.
So i finished this piece. Here it is:
"Separated at Birth"
It is definitely done. That is, this what it was supposed to be...now I have to figure out how I feel about it.
The book scraps are important to me.
they are fragments of meaning that when taken out of context have no meaning at all. and for me, text always underscores how little it actually transmits in terms of meaning that matters. I first started using text in 2000, when I did "Ravenous" -the back wall had over 100 book pages on it that had been dipped in dye and blood.
Anyhow, next image is already on the burner. I think I will work with the hand-treatments for awhile...I like it a lot!!
Ok wrong why?
Well, for one thing, it doesn't say what I wanted it to. I wanted it to be about separation, about distance, and here I ended up with the people side by side.
I don't like the harshness of it.
Also, it is too much like what I always do...I put people side by side...and so it becomes a habit, and as such, a thing devoid of meaning.
The subject matter of this piece is DISTANCE (the subject is not supposed to be the people). You don't see distance in the image in yesterday's entry. It's a side by side set-up with nothing in between, and the image is not moving in any way, at least not to me.
The in between.
That junk stuff in the middle.
I wanted to focus on the interim junk...the things we believe are not important, that we dismiss or never see.
So I went back to the drawing board.
and literally. I use Museo Max paper; it's a lot like watercolor paper with an emulsion on there for digital printing. Well, I used to hand-color my silver prints with oil paint, so I thought I might enjoy adding color and features by hand instead of with Photoshop...I don't enjoy working in PS, and I think the color I add in PS looks shitty. So I bought myself some water-based color, and hand-treated a print.
So i finished this piece. Here it is:
"Separated at Birth"
It is definitely done. That is, this what it was supposed to be...now I have to figure out how I feel about it.
The book scraps are important to me.
they are fragments of meaning that when taken out of context have no meaning at all. and for me, text always underscores how little it actually transmits in terms of meaning that matters. I first started using text in 2000, when I did "Ravenous" -the back wall had over 100 book pages on it that had been dipped in dye and blood.
Anyhow, next image is already on the burner. I think I will work with the hand-treatments for awhile...I like it a lot!!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
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