progress

The more I do and research photo weaving, the more I an intrigued by the mystery of merging two photographs together, as well as how the two images change. Themes of disappearing, loosing a sense of self or a sense of what a photograph used to be, and new meaning to a photograph come to mind the more I look at and explore weaving photographs together. I like the ideas of dissolving and changing meaning by meshing two photos together. I will explore putting photographs of people together more, as well as merging landscapes together with people as well. I think I need to choose carefully what I put together in order to create a certain meaning I have in mind.

I came across this site while doing more research, and find the concept to be interesting: http://christykovacs.blogspot.com/2010/12/photographic-weaving-process.html

 Greg Sand

 Greg Sand

 Greg Sand

These images have equal pieces of photograph weaved together, I think it would be interesting to see the effect of different sized pieces. I find the last image to be particularly interesting because of how prominent the landscape and the face are while still working together to create new meaning for both of the images.



http://davidsamuelstern.com/wovenportraits/

I researched some more and came across David Samuel Stern's woven portraits. I think this way of weaving portraits together is interesting and is something I will explore in the future as well.
I have been focused on photo weaving more than embroidery on photographs lately, but I do not want to dismiss embroidery on photographs all together. I still want to find a way to incorporate the idea in some or all of my works.