Getting Back on Track

For various reasons, I've been having trouble focusing on my work recently, and haven't really been blogging the work which I have been (albeit slowly!) getting done.

 So I guess this can be kind of a catch-up.

A while ago I started to look at the work of David Hockney, and was messing around with images digitally and whatnot, but I was beginning to get bored of working with computers and digital images etc. so I decided to take a more hands-on approach to the next step of work.

I took this photo of my bedroom (in Grove) and cut it up, in order to be able to manipulate and play around with the layering of each section of the picture (like in Hockney's work)

I played around with the pieces, almost like a jigsaw, but overlapping and making collage effects. I also photocopied a few of these placements to give the illusion of a digitally edited image.

Still not satisfied with the amount of my own hands-on input of representing the image, I decided to paint. But to make each piece it's own mini-painting. The idea here was that this one image- of my space, my home- could be made up of lots of little pieces, just like all the photos and posters which had made up my wall.

I was really happy with the painting in the end anyway.

Then I photocopied and cut out each little painting so I could play around some more with layering etc.

I also decided to try a short stop motion clip:

My next step also involves looking at each of these individual sections, not with paint, but with corrugated cardboard, which I think can look really effective. I like how each piece works compositionally and think it could translate well to print or even clay... This is the next challenge, but I think I'm getting back into focus now... :)