Blogs are a wonderful way to record free associating on the net. They are also fantastic tools to search for 'found images' which you can reinterpret and represent in a completely fresh context. I started in Central America with Glyphs, then stumbled into tattoos and finally focused on Gay Cowboys; transforming them into more rarified etchings. Unfortunately you learn by your mistakes and having created two beautiful families of tattoos grouped under Lions & crucifixes I lost the lot!!
Wednesday, 2 May 2007
Towards a print solution
Wondering if with my found images I can produce an interesting print image in the practical session. Perhaps a mock version of a Gilbert & George styled image using various tatoos and images on tattoo sites of hunky cowboys. WOuld like to play with the photocopier and layering on photoshop to try this out if only I could work out how. The other idea I have is to play around with scale using these found images a la Sigmar Polke to see to what extent their meaning alters when you blow them up several times. Need to spend more time sourcing detailed images of tattoos from sites that show the printed images you can buy online. What I love about this project is the red herring aspect of it how you can get lost on tangents.
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