Continuing my experiments in scale, I’ve been going over some of my photographs of Little Alice In The Landscape. Although I had first indended for these works to be supplementary, after taking a second look at them I have decided to make a couple of them final pieces.
One of my favorite photos is this one of little 3D printed Alice facing a massive speed bump (see image below).
I feel like this is a really powerful image, and highlights how hard an obstacle a speed bump is for me. A speed bump is really easy just to step over but to self propel across is a different matter. Its a HUGE struggle and one that causes me a lot of pain too.
To really enhance this image, I decided to blow it up using a program called Rasterbater. I had used this technique in my first year, and thought that this would be the perfect program to enlarge the accessibility problems I face.
I love seeing this work blown up. It feels monumental. I love the layers and how I have experimented with scale. First by making myself tiny, secondly by photographing the landscape from a low angle making it look huge; and lastly by enlarging the small photo to be larger than life. I would love to make this image even bigger until the small 3D model of myself becomes lifesize. Perhaps by doing this rather than me not fitting into the world, the world won’t fit in to my display.
