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While working to perfect my Polaroid transfer techniques for PK's Place I experimented with other techniques to create "decay." While these experiments failed to create series of their own they are closely related to PK's Place in their unique visual experience. NEW IMAGES- Crime Trace, Ruben and What, Me Worry? | |
Mrs. Morton's Third Grade Class
Class and Other Beginnings After finishing PK's Place,
I was excited to get started on something other than Polaroid transfers. I enjoyed the
loss of information that Polaroid transfers had, but I wanted something that had a more
mechanical quality unlike the Polaroid transfers' almost watercolored look. I decided that
110 cameras and film would provide a grainy and degraded image. I found a box of my very
old 110 prints taken with my Fisher Price camera. I picked out a few scanned them in and
set out to try and weave them together, the result being Mrs. Morton's Third Grade
Class. In PhotoShop I layered and masked off parts in order to emphasis key places.
Shawn Rider: information
Murder: a story in for parts
Multiple Transfers and More Text I used to different methods to
combine multiple images, one using the computer the other a combination of manual ways and
the computer. The first method was used on the image Murder a Story in Four Parts,
I made the transfers in the usual manner, a total of four of them, each on a separate
piece of paper. I scanned the individual images in and combined them in PhotoShop. The
second method was used to make Shawn Rider: information, I actually used one large
piece of watercolor paper and combined all five of the transfers directly onto the same
paper. I then made measurements of Shawn Rider and collected as many important numbers and
dates from him as I could. I then transferred this raw data onto the actual paper, using a
black fountain pen. After I was done with the writing, I sprayed a fine mist of water over
the page which made the black ink run slightly and revealed an orange layer. I then
scanned the original into the computer (it was too big for the scanner bed, so I had to
scan it in sections). In PhotoShop, I added more numbers and text as well as a screen in
spots.
Crime Trace
Ruben
What, Me Worry?
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