Salt, ticket and headphone

As I was using the image 'Salt Ticket Headphone' over and over again I wanted to produce and create more charcoal marks influenced by objects that I had found, adding more coding and figures from a variety of tickets and receipts that I have collected over the weeks. The charcoal drawings were not hugely effective however the figure marks I created worked well. 

By putting these on tracing paper I could layer them together to create different combinations of the information that I believe was an effective abstract identity. Because I used tracing paper each page loses slightly more focus then the last creating a translucency, blurring the information as you go further away from the first page. However I wanted to go back to what I had done in my original mark making and combine the charcoal with the figure tracing paper, but add in more figures then I previously had done. Similar to the artist Roman Opalka who uses transparency and coding in his work. 

Roman Opalka 1965

In the image below it shows that the identity of the individual has developed because I am giving the viewer more information. Bringing in features of the face such as the eyes and experimenting with colour and seeing whether this worked to my advantage are also furthering identity. 

Colour created a more detailed image and overall a more pleasing aesthetic of the face, the colour gives it a natural transition making it more lifelike. The element of colour gives the piece more of an impact and appears to evolve from the monochrome and mundane.