: Process montage
Offcuts
Reconstituted Art, Acrylic and PVA'd to a floor tile.
Close-up of relief of image on glass.
Close up
I'm a creative Magpie!
I found a bunch of tattered playing cards discarded in the middle of the road. They had a story and history, due to their tattered condition. I saved them and didn't use them until a year later. I have a lot of projects percolating like that. A lot of objects that imbue ideas for stories.
Here I took a photograph of both sides of the card and
animated it in after effects using 2.5D animation techniques.
I'd really like to properly 3D scan the objects I find, so I can make digital objects that can be examined in the metaverse. I would like to create experiences or exhibitions that link the real object to the digital counterpart and perhaps for people to be able to engage with them as part of a live, interactive experience.
These are all explorations and ideas that will develop as I go. I tend to mull on projects over a long time and I find the iteration and development the most interesting part.
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It always makes me a bit sad when people discard other peoples artwork.
I found a very tatty, discarded artwork at the side of the pavement, when walking home.
So many people must have walked past it and not bothered to put it in the bin.
I picked it up, just do my bit and throw it in the bin.
As I was walking I was looking at it and started to get ideas on what I could make with it.
Here is some process on that exploration.
I cut out the best parts of the picture, recomposed the pieces and filmed a mini 'fly thru' of a village scene.
You might be able to see the paper fasteners I attached to them so the stand up on their own.
Found artwork print by: Edith La Breton
Track: 'Kakariko Village' - The St Louis Ocarina Trio
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I gathered all of the offcuts and parts I didn't use for the sequence above.
I glued them into another composition to make a piece of collage art.
I liberally glued it together with PVA and then wrote/drip/poured acrylic paint over the top and added the two panes of shattered glass from the image. Which gives a lovely effect, because parts of the image stuck to the glass and came off with it as I peeled it off, leaving a broken relief on the glass.
It started to resemble a bomb site. Or a war zone. I pour/wrote 'Broken' on it...
Perhaps it is a subconscious ode to our broken society.
What do you see?