Visual Studies

03 Sequence

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For this third part of bookmaking process, I hit a bump. Part of it is the fact I want to make an abstract, tantric painting style. As when I picture my depression or mental health its abstract image. So what I’m thinking to show sequence, instead of doing night to day to night, the pictures start out distorted, then come together like the ones above and go back to being distorted again. With that, the colours will shift, so it will still be like the whole night to day and back again just without actually seeing a sky. I probably will kind using college, by either putting in my own drawings or putting in photographs.

Harmony – Digital

 

For my digital collages, I didn’t know how I would achieve harmony with my collages. I ended up just playing around in photoshop for most of the 6 hours trying to come out with ideas and/or good collages. It wasn’t until I accidentally made the fourth one that I decided to focus on the concept of lines and squares to find harmony. My favourite is the fourth one as I feel it intrigues the eye by the way the background two squares contrast each other. While the flowers just float in space. My least favourite is the ladies, I wanted to incorporate them into this collage but it just didn’t work out.

I also ended incorporating colour into the collage as well, just to add something to the set and I liked the colour overlay effect I accidentally got.

Harmony – Analog

 

 

 

 

 

 

For my first two collages, I found my items at tesoros trading co on South Congress. It’s an overpriced gift shop and a really long walk from here. It took me about an hour walking back and forth. My items, postcards, were only a dollar each. Since it never said that you could not buy the items and I really wanted to get the photos anyway, since they are interesting and very old-timey. So for my collages, since there is not a theme but I still wanted to create something. I decided to use female forms as my postcards are of females in their natural shapes, so why not take that as inspiration.

 

 

Gestalt #3

In the final gestalt project, my theme has reached its end with Death. As we will die sooner or later so will nature. Sadly nature seems to be on its way out sooner than what should possibly be. But I wanted to focus on more beauty or positivity in death if that makes any sense. Over the weekend, I saw the movie Mother! which is an allusion to God and how he keeps trying to remake Mother Earth/Nature over and over again. Even though in the end his creations keep destroying Earth. God still tries again and again. And seeing that movie made me want to have a different spin on death than the usual death junk.

With Gestalt, I focused on the law of containment as it fit my theme and it was the easiest to show.

 

 

 

Gestalt 02

This is part two of my nature themed gestalt project. Part two is titled Destruction as it is all about the destruction of nature by as us humans. I focused mainly on litter as it is 1. easier to photograph than other forms pollution and 2. in Austin litter is everywhere. It is a epidemic here, even here at St. Eds litter seems to be and every nook and cranny. It is also something all of us humans contribute too. Unlike other types of pollution such as oil spills, were a certain group does it. Not everyone drops oil in the ocean.

The issue I had with taking this photos were getting those gestalt principles. As I feel like with others, you could move things around but with litter who wants to touch it? Not me definitely. So I ended up taking photos of litter and when I saw a gestalt principle/law I took a photo of it. So some follow a law, hopefully, while others are just random photos. But I did try to get some gestalt pictures.

But other than that I feel okay about the photos I took.

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