1. Process
I wanted to take advantage of the fact that a scanner could capture both motion and sequence and decided to create a small painting while hitting scan every moment I could. The result created a series of images capturing the process of the painting and the 30-odd scans seemed to scream for an animation. I harkened back to the concept of GIFs from last week's class to assemble one for the purposes of the blog, and chose to highlight a few of what I found to be the most compelling of the images for my piece to print. Playing with black and white (at first a happy accident that lead me to want to include another black and white scan) was a fun part of figuring out my home scanner and experimenting with my options. Breaking the painting down into steps and being able to see the paint and image from both sides was a blast and I felt I got to explore the light hearted and whimsical features of scanography.
2. Cora
After exploring the aspect of scanography that made use of motion and sequence, I decided I wanted to pursue something of a very different nature. Thinking about the scanner as a medium and its various uses, one that stood out to me was its ability to archive images and objects in a way that preserves them, potentially, forever. Although I have boxes of artwork and postcards, I have very few physical photographs in my possession. My parents have boxes upon boxes at home, but living in a digital age, the few hard copy photographs I have are unusual treasures that hold special meaning in their rarity. I happen to have a small collection of original small format photographs of my grandmother from her teenage years through her 40's, which I chose from a pile of pictures she was getting rid of. As a result, most of the ones I have are rejects - out of focus or strange documentations, yet to me, they are mementos of a very important person in my life and are of great value. I chose to build a shrine around each photograph and document them via scanner. I found that the blurriness of some of the bent images (which wouldn't didn't lay flush to the scanner), as well as the blurred background added for affects I wouldn't have imaged and was happy with the layers of softness and memory that were added to these pocket-sized relics.
I wanted to take advantage of the fact that a scanner could capture both motion and sequence and decided to create a small painting while hitting scan every moment I could. The result created a series of images capturing the process of the painting and the 30-odd scans seemed to scream for an animation. I harkened back to the concept of GIFs from last week's class to assemble one for the purposes of the blog, and chose to highlight a few of what I found to be the most compelling of the images for my piece to print. Playing with black and white (at first a happy accident that lead me to want to include another black and white scan) was a fun part of figuring out my home scanner and experimenting with my options. Breaking the painting down into steps and being able to see the paint and image from both sides was a blast and I felt I got to explore the light hearted and whimsical features of scanography.
2. Cora
After exploring the aspect of scanography that made use of motion and sequence, I decided I wanted to pursue something of a very different nature. Thinking about the scanner as a medium and its various uses, one that stood out to me was its ability to archive images and objects in a way that preserves them, potentially, forever. Although I have boxes of artwork and postcards, I have very few physical photographs in my possession. My parents have boxes upon boxes at home, but living in a digital age, the few hard copy photographs I have are unusual treasures that hold special meaning in their rarity. I happen to have a small collection of original small format photographs of my grandmother from her teenage years through her 40's, which I chose from a pile of pictures she was getting rid of. As a result, most of the ones I have are rejects - out of focus or strange documentations, yet to me, they are mementos of a very important person in my life and are of great value. I chose to build a shrine around each photograph and document them via scanner. I found that the blurriness of some of the bent images (which wouldn't didn't lay flush to the scanner), as well as the blurred background added for affects I wouldn't have imaged and was happy with the layers of softness and memory that were added to these pocket-sized relics.
Comments
Post a Comment