More Progress on the self portrait

Self Portrait Final

Some in-progress shots of the self portrait, still deciding whether to go with the long version or the shorter version. I will probably begin to work in more photographic elements and textures.

Final Project - Self Portrait

For my final project I want to do a self portrait. I want it initially to appear as an abstract composition, but closer inspection by the viewer will reveal a figure. I want to play with identity and loss of identity by using large geometric and solid shapes to create the form, as well as small bits of photography. I also want to print it fairly large.

I got Pyramids for days

The third one is the most final.

Pyramid Work

More Work on the Pyramid

Pyramid Concept

More work on Cyclical Nature

I've worked more with the idea of pattern and repeated shapes, stripping it down to just a single bar.

Cyclical Nature of Things: Two Takes

 

I have two variations on my image right now, one focuses on the delicate nature of events preserved in time, and the other looks at patterns of moments repeating in time.

Faces in the Sky

I've gone in a different direction from last time, I first created these hidden faces out of the original pictures, then played around a lot with gradient mapping and altering the colors of the image. After playing around with the colors I got it to look like a three dimensional form, I really like how it looks like it is floating and delicate. I used some overlays and filters to make it look like an old photo or copy, preserving a brief moment from long ago.

Lightning Forms

This is the image I am working with currently, I am playing with creating architecture out of the shapes in the images. I want to capture the beauty of the lightning in these ephemeral structures that seem to have a sense of grandeur to them, but only exist for a fraction of a second in real life.

Cyclical Nature of things

Here are my contact sheets for the Cyclical nature of things. I took a lot of photos of a thunderstorm over Boone. My concept is to take a look at how life is just a cycle of waiting around, interrupted by brief moments of excitement, and how often important moments seem to be over before they start, much like lightning I want to use the murky forms in the clouds and lightning to create delicate figures emerging from the darkness. I took these pictures because I thought the storm looked very interesting, and usually when I see lightning it is just for a moment, and not preserved forever, so it was interesting to see the forms preserved.