With identity still
as my main theme I wanted to bring in the face as it is an important
element to suggest a person, and it is what most obviously identifies
us socially. I took my most effective work ‘Salt Ticket Headphone’
and lay a portrait image on top to give the piece a physical
identity.
I experimented in Photoshop with revealing only elements of
the face within the marks to see certain features such as the eyes or
mouth. Including these elements within the charcoal marks was
effective as it gave a suggestion of the physical person but doesn't
make it immediately obvious. This made me think of layout and how
moving certain elements on the page can really transform an image and
its meaning. I also looked at using my previous hand written notes on
observing people as a way of masking the physical being, contrasting
the use of less frequent larger writing to more frequent smaller
writing and the success to which they masked the identity of the
human. The words I chose intentionally describe the human behind the
text.
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