I began doodling and drawing over my passport images, and found myself like some of my previous work from a while ago taking the eyes out of the image. Thus making the image go from a standard clear portrait with personality coming through, to becoming creepy and quite chilling. It’s interesting to me that such a transformation can come from just taking the eyes out of the picture, but as i mentioned in an earlier post ‘the eyes are the door to the soul’, and in this piece it becomes true.
To me these images are very effective and I can see myself progressing with it, however with taking the eyes out of the image it totally changes the viewer’s perspective. I would like the viewer to look at the eyes of my family members, because then it becomes more personal and that is what my work is about.
This first image is one I am rather fond of, I’m thinking about blowing them up to a larger scale with the outside images in black and white as the are origionaly anyway being that they are from the late 1970’s, and having the middle image in colour as the contrast would be engaging. Also I thought the simplicity to the positioning (me in the middle and my parents either side) was rather compelling in itself.
The second image was a quick idea that I think works really well, this is something I would also like to take further. It reminds me of the kings and queens on playing cards. It seems to me that it acts as a parallel world, a different dimension this really compells me.
Eyes. They say eyes are the door to your soul. Well, that is why I just cut the top half of the head on two of these images. I do think it’s true the eyes in general and in these images give a lot away, however I do think these images work alot better when they are whole. the image at the bottom is of my Mother, sister and my own eyes, I thought it would be quite interesting to see the comparison of the eyes of a Mother and her daughter’s.
These are a couple more images from my sketchbook where i was playing around they are a bit messy as they are in my sketchnook, but its just ot get my ideas down. I was seeing what it would look like having images of the same person in different stages of their life. This first one is of my sister, her as a child a new teenager and as an adult. It is interesting for me to see the progression of her image but also interesting to see if the viewer would make the comparison or just think that they are different people all together. The next image is of my Father. One of him at a young age and the other as an adult. I placed these together as there is a much larger gap in age with these two images so ahain the comparison is interesting.
After looking at Emin’s Photo Album and Andy Warhol’s Photo booth images, i have for the last few days been experimenting with mine, nothing final just placing images beside other ones, seeing how they work and cutting them up and playing with the compostions.
First i played around with simply seeing the effect of placing two of the same image beside one another, with coloured tacks around the side. I think this does simply double the impact almost giving a very light surreal effect, i like the parallel’s. Also with the second image presented of my brother. I dont feel as though this one works as much as the previous one with it being in colour and black and white. I feel as though the colour brings out the life and personality og the person potrayed where as black and white hides it.
This last image I do however think it works well this one especially reminds me of Andy Warhol’s work when he uses repitition. I think this one works in black and white as there is a lot of repitition, it brings an old quality and mystery to the piece. However I believe that it would also work in colour.
