I have started to look into silhouettes and stencils of faces. I took an image of my face from the side and drew a quick line drawing of it. I then cut out an outline of the face and began to place it on different surfaces to show how things can change over time and it also shows that the face can decay over time which is suggested by the different background that are showing through the outline.
After I did this, I started to look into charcoal work and quick sketchy drawings. From the image of my face from the side, I completed a silhouette charcoal drawing, which is in my folder.
My inspiration for this came from Pam Glew and another image that I found which I was inspired by the technique of it.
Pam Glew
Technique
Again, these images fit into the theme of decay because the charcoal material creates a smudge and a layered effect. The image above has a sort of blur to it which has been created with the charcoal smudging and this links to both multiple images and decay, as the smudging sort of creates layers and the decay is shown also by the smudging as a 'blur' is created.
Pam Glew links in with multiple images also, as she works on top of tea-stained paper and also works into her pieces with charcoal, ink and chalk. The idea of decay links into this piece by having the face and creating the tone to the face. Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to look at faces and the wrinkles on faces. I may choose a celebrity and show how over the years they have decayed.
Another artist that links closely to Pam Glew's work is Florian Nicolle:
This artist uses the same kind of materials that Pam Glew does and they also work with portraits of faces, which links again to the above work that I have shown by Pam Glew. Both Pam Glew and Florian Nicolle have influenced the work at the start of my portfolio, which I have worked into a face image and developed it by using charcoal and ink etc; however I have also developed the image in relation to sillohette style work which links to the artist, Jasper James. He has create a very similar piece to the work that I have done and I took the inspiration from the images that I have shown at the top of this blog post, using the cut of a face and placing it on different materials and this links in with Jasper's work, yet it offers a different interpretation. My interpretation of the style of work that is below is in my folder and I have produced a physical piece of work, rather than doing it digititally and I have placed the same cut out that I have used on the photographs above and I have stuck that onto the top of a landscape image that I had taken.
This also links in with the double exposure work that Matt Wisneiwski's pieces that are in my previous blog posts and link to the idea of having a face and showing a landscape through that.
To link in with multiple images also, I have looked at the idea of double exposure. Double exposure is when you take a picture of something and don't wind the film of the camera on.
As you can see, there is a background within the image of the human. I have found a lot more images on this website, Many More Artists/Photographers, and they all link in with my project extremely well. You can see above my images that are a cameo/sillouhette, that I have placed onto different backgrounds is my interpretation of this technique and this links in with the idea of multiple images.
To link in more with the theme of decay, I have started to look at Sam Taylor Wood's video of a dead hare decaying and the maggots eating away at it: A Little Death
As the hare starts to rot away and decay, the peach stays intact and doesn't even start to show any form of decay, which is extremely interesting as it just shows how nature takes it course and starts to clear away the dead animal until only the shell of it is left.
Another piece of Sam Taylor Wood's work which links in with the theme of decay, is the piece of the fruit bowl where she has left it to decay and it starts grow mould: Fruit Piece
To link in with her pieces, I am going to piece a piece of meat and take a picture of it everyday as it begins to rot away and the maggots starts to clear it away. I may then make this into a video.
A piece by Damien Hirst really links in well with the idea of using video to show decay. His piece, 'Lets eat outdoors today' shows how nature takes it course to clear away dead animals, as he sets up a picnik table in a glass cabnit and places a dead pigs head underneath the table as time goes on the maggots and flies start to build up and begin to get zapped by the fly killing machine. It is really quite amazing: Lets Eat Outdoors Today
I wanted to try my own piece; however when living in an area where there are many animals such as foxes I don't think it would work like I wanted to. I had the idea of taking a picture of a piece of meat in a box each day to watch how the maggots got into it and tidied it away, but it didn't work like I wanted it too. It didn't actually change and in the end it wasn't there the next day as a fox or another animal must have eaten it.
Instead of choosing pursue the idea of leaving the meat outside, I decided to let a cup of coffee decay. I wanted to investigate my ideas further and instead of completing the same idea as Damien Hirst, by using the meat, I chose to use 3 cups of coffee and I left them for well over a week to see what results I would have at the end of it.
After the week, I ended up with 3 cups full of mould:
After the mould was taken out of the cup, this was the outcome after another couple of weeks:
Above is the image that is in my folder.
The texture and the form of the mould links to this fine art america piece which I found and this links into my project, as I am hoping to include the mould within some pieces of my work.
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