Art in Limbo: January 2013

January 30, 2013

The house

I was talking about posting come of my "collages."
Here is a digital collage I created with digitized film negatives.

The Process :

I shot with Lomography X-Tungsten film on a Lomography Fisheye No.1. The film was then cross processed at the lab. The cross processing actually left the pink, purple, and red tones to the
photographs.

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I then imported these photos into Adobe Photoshop, and started to manipulate the images to piece them together. It just seems right that these photos sit amongst one another. I physically rewound the film in order to have the photos overlap one another.

Getting i-grammy with myself

For someone that loves the SURPRISE of shooting with film, it may be strange to admit I do enjoy that application called Instagram. It is pretty darn fun.

Importing photos from my computer so I can plop them into the no-brainer application to squari-fy and light-i-dize the photos is a fun past-time. I also enjoy using PhotoGrid to puzzle together particular photos to make a collage.

Is this selling out? Is this art?

I will contest --- there is a creative process here. There is a knack to making something look good.

The process may be quite intricate. The process may be within a smartphone, but it exists.

Will this be accepted as art in the future?

Some avant-garde artists have recorded video on there phones, and have applied that to works of art...

I have the urge to go into the darkroom and create collages with enlarged negatives.

I've done it before...

Chopping up enlarged litho-negs and digital negatives and plopping those on a piece of photo paper. Exposing the light to it...then voila! You have a collage on one piece of paper made out of photographs.

The same idea goes for collage making from snipping together bits and scraps of things, and then photocopying it to get a print out of 1 entire image.

(stream of consciousness flows............)

Hmmmmm ... I have a thing for collage, photograms, etc.
I should explore this... I have just realized my work in the past has leaned towards this process in many different mediums. The process of piecing many things together to create 1 whole.

Examples of past "hands-on" work to come.

For now... enjoy my PhotoGrids!

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