work and research cont.

   

I recently finished a bigger 13x19 photo weaving and learned a couple of things:

• the smaller the strips of paper are, the more visible the images I am weaving together are
• the image in the back is more recognizable than the second one I am cutting up and weaving in to it
• if the subject has their eyes open in both photographs it is easier to recognize that there are two different photographs
• if he subject is facing a different way in each photograph it is easier to recognize two photographs

I have learned from the first weaving and am going to weave together two separate images shot with more drastic shadow and different facial expressions in hopes that the two will be recognizable when the weaving is complete.

 

I hope that because the two faces are not in the same place that they will both show up equally and viewers will be able to recognize two figures.

Alivia recently shared with me the artist Isabel M. Martinez (http://www.immartinez.com/index.html) because she found her work relevant to what I have been doing in 626. I am very happy she shared Martinez's work with me because it has made me think about photo weaving differently, and has made me practice new ways of merging images together.

 Isabel M. Martinez The Weekend #12

Her series, The Weekend, is done by placing strips of images on top of another whole image. I found this method of merging images together to be interesting, so I tried it out on my own.

I feel that the two images I chose, of a tent and a lake which were shot at the same location, would be best to test this method out with because they are similar, but tell different parts of the mood and feeling of camping at a lake. Next time I try this out I will use two images that were shot at different locations at different times to see what meaning that can convey. This method gives more of a glimpse into how nature and how people change, and can also hide parts of a photograph or subject as well. I will continue working with both of these methods in order to convey a sense of distance, change in feeling, and a feeling of hiding something from the viewer in my work.