more thinking

The more I research photo weaving and embroidery in photographs the more I become interested in the practice and idea. I am enjoying exploring these two ways of manipulating photographs to change or add meaning to a photograph.
 http://knithacker.com/2011/08/23/awesome-paper-weaving/

 http://artfueled.com/2013/11/11/photo-weaving-lesson/

The image of the face and the lion is interesting to me, and it inspired me to make a mix of my face and my sisters face. I would like to create more mixes of faces, and want to explore meshing more photographs together as well.



I decided to weave together just the face because I wanted to focus only on facial features. However, I feel that next time I will try weaving together the whole image. While it was intentional, it still feels unfinished to me.



For this image I took a photo of this rock trail and then took another picture of a figure sitting down looking at it. Then, I weaved the figure into the background image. I feel like the figure it not easily recognizable, so I need to work on a way to make it look more like a human and less like just weaving in to the background photograph.

I have spent a lot of time working on and experimenting with photo weaving because I have not done it before, and I would like to work on ways to incorporate weaving and embroidery in to photographs.