I was super happy with all of the feedback I got last thursday during our phase II critique. I got some great ideas on how to finish the piece I am currently working on and ideas sparked for the last phase. After looking at Juxtapoz Magazine online- one of the recommendations from class- I found the artist Carsten Witte who I used for my artist statement research as well. He is a photographer from Germany and I am absolutely in love with his newest work. He does these intense black and white photos of women with skulls overlayed on top of their faces. Obviously since it has skulls and bones I am drawn to it! I am completely inspired by his work.
For my photo imagery on fabric final, I have decided to shoot headshots of all of my friends and overlay their faces with skulls. I am either going to print them as cyanotypes or van dyke brown prints, or maybe even combine the two. There is also a possibility that I might try solvent transfers as well.
For Phase lll I want to take a couple of the portraits and wood burn them onto tree stumps- an idea that came up last class. I might overlay some of the faces, I'm not entirely sure yet, but I'll experiment once I have taken the photos. I want to have the faces gradually starting to fade into the skull. I also need to incorporate the birds in some way but I haven't figure that out yet either. I know I still have some planning to do, but I'm really excited to get working on this!
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