Lesson 1
In our first lesson in learning about sight specific images we gathered images from the internet to combined together to make sight specific images. My first thoughts about this where very basic, the first thought being to add graffiti to a wall. I didn't really like this image but was the only idea i could come up with. I googled 'Graffiti' and some of the first ones to come up was Pink Floyd 'Brick in The Wall' Images. I opened these up in photoshop and merged different images onto a image of a wall that i took. These are some of the first attempts at creating a composite image.
I didn't really like these images or the idea of them. I wanted to create something with a concept and meaning. I came up with the idea of create a political image based around the twin towers. I found an image of the towers that i thought would work really well. I had the idea to put some graffiti styled images on each tower relating to america. i wanted these to be controversial. I came up with the idea to put a graffiti image of George Bush, holding a slaughter knife in one hand, as a way to represent the belief that the government caused 911. On the other tower I wanted to add an image that i thought would relate to the concept of the other. I decided to wrap a torn american flag to reflect how the american government has ruined the country. I really liked the concept behind this image and I also like the way it looked aesthetically:
From this lesson i gathered a better understanding of what composite image are.
Lesson 2
For this lesson we had to create a composite image using are own photography. In this lesson we focused on digital intervention. This where you add something to your chosen space in editing rather that right when you're shooting the image. We where sent out into town to find locations to photograph that we could digitally intervene. For this I decided to take images of windows and billboards and then digitally add people into the images so they look like a person is pressed to the glass. I went out around town to find windows to photograph. I thought that using older windows on a small scale would be the most effective. After I got these images I decided that I wanted to branch out, think of more things the photograph other than windows. I found some electric billboards in the Trinity Shopping Centre. I had the idea of putting fashion images on these billboards because these billboards where placed in a shopping centre. I really liked how the images with the window turned out, however i left like the billboard image could have been improved upon.
Final Images
Lesson 3
In our previous lesson we looked at how we could use digital intervention to create out images, in this lesson we look at how physical intervention could be use. Physical intervention is the opposite of digital. Physical Intervention is done at the time of shooting so, for example the image is on the side of the building at the time of shooting rather than adding it in afterwards. In this lesson we where given a sheet of paper and then asked to go out and find an environment where we would be able to incorporate the paper. For this I worked as part of a group, this made it much easier when thinking of locations to add the paper too, as well as having a partner to hold the paper while another photographs. My partner came up with the idea of photographing the piece of paper in a mirror, creating a repetition of paper in the mirror.
My idea was based around censoring. In these images i blocked out things that where seen as taboo within society, such as a toilet.
The original idea behind this was to use the lines in the image to create a cartoon drawing of the toilet. However i thought that the concept behind this was very strong, but could be carried out better technically. I really struggled to find a way to incorporate to paper into a physical environment.
Proposal
For this project I want to use both digital and
physical intervention together. I will use both of these in my images, as I want
to create images where there is a piece of paper covering someone or something.
I will then, using a mixture of Photoshop and hand drawing, use the lines of the image to create an image on
the paper. The physical intervention being the paper in whatever chosen
environment and then digitally intervening to add the image on the paper. I think that to create this images using the studio and brightly coloured backdrops would work best. However for these images i want to try out both on location and in the studio, then decide what works best. Likewise with the drawing is will create a set of images, one where the cartoon image has been hand drawn and another where the drawing have been made digitally. By doing this I will then have an idea of weather or not my idea works the way that i want it to. From this project i want to create a medium size set of images, i think that around 10-15, to make a nicely sized series of images.
Research
Blek Le Rat
Blek Le Rat is a french street artist based in Paris, who was one of the first artists to use life sized stencils to create his work. Some of his work involves him making life sized stencils of well known people or just normal people. I think that I could relate this to my own work by using a stencil styled technique to create the images on the top of the paper. I really like the effect and look of stencil images and think that they could fit it really well with my idea. As well as these image there are some images made by La Rat that involve appropriation. This is where you take an image made by another artist and then transform it into your own piece of art. La Rat did this with an image of a £10 note where he turned the queen onto a skeleton head. This something that I could do in my own work, opposed to just creating cartoons i could take well known image and place them over the top, then create my own cartoon drawing of the image.
Banksy
Banksy's work closely relates the of La Rat as they both use stencils to create graffiti. There work is so
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