Application of photographic materials, techniques and processes

This is a response to the artists Kensuke Koike, Anthony Zinonos and Caro Ma. I have applied techniques and processes I've studied from other artists to create an artwork inspired by their practices. I focus on transforming a portrait to serve as a background, and edit the portrait through cutting strips and rotating them instead of adding or deleting things. I really like this effect, it's clearer in the previous process photos, the focus on altering the original photos meaning. I stuck the photo of flowers over the portrait in a way that covers the bottom half of the face, and therefore accentuates the top half as if the face was hiding. I had the idea to use the portrait as a background by playing with scale and making it very big compared to the human subject in the foreground. I stuck over the flowers with harsh turquoise blue which is meant to represent a sky. I then stuck a little girl rollerblading over it. This composition is meant to present a relationship of man that wishes to invade and invalidate nature. This is why I stuck the blue over the flowers, it's like a sign of defiance or rejection. The blue is meant to feel sickly and the model in the background is meant to be a surreal component of the image to make the viewer uncomfortable like they are watching everything. Representing mans ugly qualities in contemporary society, like intruding on others matters etc. This response is simply meant to be a visualisation of the ideas concerning the brief in my head.

 

This artwork responds to the brief as it grotesquely manipulates man in relation to nature which peacefully is placed on the collage. This is meant to create a surreal landscape that

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