I have a vision for my final BFA show and it goes something like this: huge (17x22 or bigger) photo weaving hanging off the wall the same way a woven blanket would be presented. I would like to present photo weavings of people as well as architecture and other aspects of Earth and how Earth relates to people.
At the moment, however, I feel I need to focus on perfecting a technique that works for me in order to create the best photo weavings possible. I have tried multiple techniques and ways of weaving photographs together in the past couple of weeks. For example, I have tried cutting horizonal and vertical lines in my first photograph and then weaving in from the bottom or the side. I have learned that I prefer cutting horizontal lines first. I hope my preferred way translates well when I start working with bigger photographs.
I recently did my first portrait weaving with pictures of my brother. I did not shoot the portraits in a studio so the lighting was not what I preferred, but I was just shooting them to test out how they would look when weaved together. While I could have done a better job with the weaving, I do like how I got the general idea of what it will look like. I will not include text in portraits I shoot from now on because of how big of a distraction text is, and I will play with shadows more, too.
I used very small sections when weaving these two portraits together to try to get the both of them to show better. After completing this photo weaving I learned that the back image shows more than the one that I cut up. I will see if this continues to happen in future weavings. I also learned that weaving two complex photographs might not work well because too much is going on when the two photos are combined.I want to explore weavings that did not feature faces of people, too, so I tried weaving two photographs taken one right after the other of two figures walking up a hill. I would like to experiment with different sizes of sections to see how I can enhance the effect of time, disappearing, change, among other themes in my work from now on.
I hope the bigger size of the paper and the simplicity of the background makes both images move visible once I am done weaving them together. I anticipate that my shirt and necklace will be a bit distracting, so in the future I am going to try to get portraits that solely focus on the face.