Abstract Identities

To develop my marks, figures and writing I started to combine all these elements to create abstract identities looking at how the different combinations of materials, lines and figures could work together as one. Some were more successful then others, one being a combination of loose marks from the charcoal combined with the fine liner influenced by the string of a headphone wrapping around it. Also the numbers from a train ticket, the space around it the combination worked really well, I also liked how it moved from one end of the page to the other. I decided to use tracing paper, as a means of combining all these elements to see if layering one on top of the other looked good. Having not had any of the human form visible so far in my work I wanted to bring in an element of the human figure.

I did this by photocopying elements of my body, some stationary and some moving to have a suggestion of a human. The most affective body part were my hands as they have a clear outline and have a good structure to them, I looked at combining these with the marks and figures from the tracing paper images I mentioned before and seeing if they worked well as a whole.