Friday, July 10, 2009

Work by Hollis Brown Thornton...

Some amazing work linked to me by Stefhany.
Love the manual method used to crop and delete the subjects from the images.




All acrylic, pigment transfer on paper.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollisbrownthornton/
How to use the same process: http://www.hollisbrownthornton.com/information/transfer.htm

Thursday, July 9, 2009

come to believe...


"Leo was the love of my life(cat!)"

taken from my work in progress at the moment.
my mum's cat from when she was living on her own in a flat in albert park.

they've disappeared - series...






probably the most important things to me growing up were the family i did have and my much loved pets.
as i didn't really spend too much time with my english grandma due to the overseas boundary. I wasn't too attached to her.
The same was for my australian grandma, although my brother and i were close when we were younger. As she went down hill mentally and phsycially, we sort of got separated in seeing each other.
So therefore when they both died i wasn't as upset as i probably thought i would be.
But as for my pets. Which both died recently after having them for such a long time.
Probably hit me harder...
They remain by your side every day.
You come home.
Having had a shit day, and they're waiting to comfort you.
So when they died, i was devastated.
Which was strange considering the lack of emotin i had when my grandmothers died...

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

presenting my folio...

So i think I've decided on a presentation method for folio review.
I'm going to collate some of my images and writing into an old book.
I was going through one of many bookcases filled with my mum's old books.
And i came across an old book titled 'Came to believe...' 'The spiritual adventure of A.A as experienced by individual members.'
Knowing first hand what my mum's been through, i thought it would be a very strong theme to explore in combination with my work. And as I'm using some family portraits and images of her, it would be relevant.

I thought using the book as the bones for my images and work to be displayed in would create something very emotive.
So using the pages as frames, I'll mount my small images and relevant work within the book's existing pages.



Monday, July 6, 2009

wild rotoscoped porn...

using the same animating technique i used to do quite a bit.
different porn scenes masked with amazing animations.

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would like to go back and do some more rotoscoping.
perhaps over animated photographic stills...

awkward family photos...

hilarious blog.
might rip some of these and use them in some assemblage/collage work...







http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Hidden Identity...

More images i've found or had lying in my back catalogue of found images that hide or alter the face of the subject in the photo.



The image above is similar to an image i did late last year.

I really like the added meaning of hiding someones identity.
But i think if i was to do something similar, I'd edit the image after it was taken rather than have the model/subect wearing a mask.
More like the polaroids by Stefhany Yepes.