CONCEAL PROJECT PART 1

Conceal: A two week project exploring many avenues and processes in order to extend our ideas and creative approaches.

Initially we started this project by looking at collage, and how it is possible to manipulate images to create new ones.

This is one of the pieces I am particularly pleased with. As you can see I have cut away sections of the image to create a 'behind bars' effect, and I have also added emphasis to the lips to create a focal point. After I had stuck everything down I started to consider how I could then develop the piece to create more impact for the viewer, which led me to changing the image into black and white, and then placing colour behind. I believe that this now makes the image pop out even more, as although the colour stands out in the foreground, it helps your eyes to focus on the face behind. 

This collage is perhaps the most experimental of my designs. Firstly I took two similar sized faces and 'weaved' them together to create stripes that conceal the underneath face. However upon completion it was obvious to me that this image needed much more manipulation until it was complete. This observation taught me that I was understanding the idea of manipulating images, and that I needed to refer back to the artists I studied in order to see how I could develop the piece maturely. It's very important to understand that not everything can be finished immediately, and it will often need revising and refining before it can be labelled 'completed' and I am pleased I have realised this quite early on as it will form a useful skill for both future learning and employment.

I really enjoy looking at these two images together, although they are unrelated I feel that they work really well composition-wise on this double page spread in my sketchbook. With the image on the left I have experimented with text, and I did not really think about the composition, it just worked itself out by the pieces I chose fitting together perfectly. There is not much colour in the pice and I feel that this is what it is probably missing. I think if I made the scenery background 'pop art' it would bring the page to life, and would then also link with the image on the right. 

With the image on the right, I managed to find the pink head that matched the body underneath, however I couldn't find a way to link them together seamlessly, which is why the white boarder remains around the head. The text that goes across concealing her eyes reads 'God knows what the old man thought as he gazed' which I find ironic as the body holding the head is actually male.