Carrying on from the 'Shelter' project I decided to kinda carry it on with the whole distortion of identity idea. So I got a few cut outs of faces and bodies from magazines and swapped them to make them look weird & mis-matched. I did the same with facial features of different sizes and shapes which reminded me of an artist who did a similar thing who I have looked at before called Sara... something.. I know it's terrible but I can't remember her name for the life of me! Well I decided to carry this on but with photos instead.. the first one didn't work so well, but it was all photo-shop experiments.. I actually ended up using Photoshop to how I wanted to.. It was all testing and trying different tools to see which ones worked. I placed my friends' features onto one face so they all collided.. I thought this was a lot of fun, and a lot of them got awfully creeped out by these images, which is the reaction I wanted. I also swapped mine and my sister's features which was very strange to look at as I know, when we were younger we used to get told we looked very alike, so I thought I'd twist it around and see what would happen if we did in fact swap features.. end result.. very strange. I ended up testing the warp tool and the like... was hard to get the desired effects at first, but I kept trying with it and got there in the end. The most fun I had was making myself and my boyfriend into a dog and a cat... and then myself into an owl. I chose those particular animals as it just seemed suited to our personalities.. and for an owl.. I've always thought that if I could be any bird, it would be an owl, as I can see similarities. In the end I decided to go for these 6 images out of all the different images I experimented with as they seemed to go with each other in the exhibition, and seemed to create a pattern in the way I planned them out on the wall. These images are below in no particular order.
After our review I had my presentation with my tutors.. They were actually helpful in where I could take it next. Although they said I need a more sustained practice and the project needs a stronger concept.. I do agree with this, I just need to stay motivated as I really enjoyed this project and I want to take it further so I'm thinking of taking the animal/human theme and creating a stronger idea and hopefully going in to research Greek mythology and human & animal like creatures.. My mother is really interested in the whole Greek mythology stories, and we had a big discussion about it over the Christmas period. I could tell how passionate she was about all the creatures and stories! She lent me a really old book she had from her childhood which was battered to pieces but had such wonderful stories in. I couldn't stop reading it! I would love to take it with me to uni but I can't as my mum is quite fond of it and doesn't want it ruined which is fair enough.
I was also thinking of looking into animal habits and how they relate to humans, or just swapping them round like animals doing human activities and humans doing animal activities; I think it could be potentially quite funny too. Because I'm away ski-ing in Switzerland at this present time I would love to put animals on skis as I brought a fancy dress costume with me to ski in (giraffe outfit) so it got me thinking of how weird it would look to humanitse animals on skis. . . That's just a thought for now. However I definately want to carry these ideas through as they are too awesome to miss, so watch this space...
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