After not being fully satisfied with the results of my Bambi collage, I decided to photocopy the image without the background to see what it would like like in black and white.
I find the image in black and white is much more effective and after seeing it like this and on a larger scale as I enlarged it to A3. After doing this I feel as though it’s expressing what was in my head much more efficiently. The idea had been forming already but as usual when I make work it takes the process and completion for me to realise what I am trying to express.
To me the image expresses naivety and a loss of innocence, how you can meet something or someone in life who you can trust and no matter how intelligent or savvy you consider yourself to be this person or thing can turn you into the innocent and something can happen that makes that be taken advantage of or lost.
I continued to zoom in on the image, photocopying the photocopies and not the original image. I found as the image became more grainy and the quality changed, this enhanced the feeling I was aiming for. As a series of images the enlargements shown in order are more impressive and effective than the original images.
This was an experiment with the process of copying and enlarging and I find the final results interesting and the process created a viable result, to display it I would like to produce the images with a better finish than the photocopies.
