we went to the cube cinema and did a workshop
where we had a couple of frames of a film where we scratched into the film as
well as painting ink over it. After this we got an opportunity to put everyone’s
work together and screen it.
We also got the chance to look round the cinema
and go behind the sense to look at all the equipment that not ever cinema has
these days.
For this project I was working in a group of two other
people (one other photo media student and a fine art student). We decided to
base our project on body image. To get this idea we decided to take the idea
from Natalia’s project based on breastfeeding in public, we tool this idea and
decided to focus on the female body. We then decided to take the skills Georgia
and I shared through film photography. We then started to discuss what we could
do with the photos with these links and it was decided to try to portray varied
feelings women have of their bodies, by destroying them (creatively), by
burning, painting, embroidering, scratching etc.
In doing this we took inspiration from three
artists/photographers.
The first artist was Gerhard Richer we took his technique
of dragging paint over Images (on a smaller scale). His work Is very much about
covering, hiding and filling up space, so this links to views to body image.
Jessa Fairbrother is a photographer that we looked into. She
uses mixed media within her work, for example her project ‘conversations with
my mother’ where she destroys photos of her mother and herself by burning,
embroidering, ripping, placing objects on top as well as other ways to destroy
or cover up photos.
We decided to use Annette Messager’s presentation
style. We chose to take the hanging collage style as we thought it would look
well with the amount of work we were going to produce for this project and even
though there is so much going on with the work itself this style looks very put
together and makes each individual peace look harmonise with each other.
Burning
Because it was to windy outside we had to go into one of the work rooms with an extraction fan, we burnt both images from the darkroom and digital.
we found that because of the type of paper the darkroom images where on it was easier to control the flames and it also started to bubble and give the photos more texture to it.
Painting
We did a mix of putting the paint on one end of the photo and dragging it across the image with some card, dripping paint onto the image, putting paint at the top of the image and letting it drip down the page, smudging a thin layer of paint around over the image so it isn't covering the image just putting something between the print and the eye.
Different ways to develop
We decided to try different ways to develop the images in
the darkroom, so we dripped developer onto the undeveloped images and use a paint
developer onto the silver based paper.
Solarisation
Solarisation is a technique that brings out the silver in
the photographic paper (done in the darkroom). To do this you expose the Image
twice, first you print the image onto the paper, develop it and the put it into
cold water. Once this is done you put it back under the light (only a couple of
seconds not too long) and then develop, stop it and fix the image to the paper.
Scratching and Crumpling
We decided to scratch and crumple our Images as it portrays
the negative side of body image.
Embroidery
We decided to embroider on top of the photos over body parts
that stand out/have a definition to them.
