Thursday 10 February 2011

Background alternatives and mirrored work

These are images that i have used a lot but they have never been printed.







The palm tree image was a photo cut from a travel brochure, for me it depicted an element of culture that was both despicable but completely natural, the need for utopia. I saw these as bill board size images, again backlit and encased in some kind of perspex. 


I intended to keep making more of these mirrored images but rather than stay in thinking two dimensionally i think i moved on to more sculptural work. Using the caveman images and the two mountainscapes i took in Scotland i made a booklet, each image was printed on acetate and framed between two pieces of perspex, all the images were then bound on one side by sticky backed plastick.
I referred to the booklet as a 'product' as oppose to an artwork, it made it more tangible. based on the plastic element of the materials i wanted it to reflect a consumerist element. It really interested me at the time but it was still too badly made, for the piece to work it should have been made much more carefully and with no blemishes.

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