What a title! I was just reading an article, “‘Force yourself to see more flatly’: A photographic investigation of the infra-ordinary” by Joanne Lee in Forsdick, C., Leak, A.N. and Phillips, R. (2019) Georges Perec’s geographies : material, performative and textual spaces. 1st edn. London: UCL Press. Lee consciously takes Perec’s suggestion ‘to see more… Continue reading Defamiliarisation through compositing
Category: Composites
Extraction of the Fraction
I wanted to try some erasure/extraction poetry, using pages from my MSc thesis from the 70s as the source material and maybe use some gel plate techniques to add some interest. One of the first pages I chose (p. 90), gave me the line “Extraction of the Fraction”, an omen for this kind of work?… Continue reading Extraction of the Fraction
Record receipt
It just ocurred to me … that record receipt from November 75 for Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ and Steely Dan’s ‘Countdown to Ecstasy’ … well, I still have most of my old vinyl, although I haven’t played them for over 30 years (but I’m actively putting together my old hifi system from the 70s and 80s… Continue reading Record receipt
MSc thesis
I’ve been referring to this in my work and using some pages in my practice, so I thought I should add it to the blog. It’s got the catchy title of “Dechanneling of 2 MeV Helium Ions in Gold“. This was completed in 1978 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Student Working Day
It was a nice opportunity to work together with fellow students, even if it was via Teams. I made a few composites, and it is good to keep at it.
Composites and Collages
Most of the work I’ll be doing in this MA will consist of composite or collage images made digitally or physically. In the first module they will all be digital. I’m scanning images of letters, photos and other objects and combining them digitally. I know a lot of techniques for doing the digital editing in… Continue reading Composites and Collages
Another tester or two
I combined this image twice with one of me The first composite Another, other tester -trying another portrait The Second Composite The composite
Middle Row Composites
I will try to make some composites (nearly) every day even if they are not great, to get the ball rolling. Two scans from the middle drawer The Composites I like bits of each, so I may come back and work more on them.