Introducing photography into my project

    

I decided to look into photographing ink after a brain wave that included adding more than one colour to a shape and then labbeling that shape with what the two colours that haven’t mixed together should make; for example a shape filled with blue and red I would label ‘purple’. Then after some experiments with putting two colours together in mediums such as watercolour and acrylic paint I realised that they weren’t as successful as I had hoped for. I then started to think about how I could put two colours together with a medium that wouldn’t mix into a third colour. I thought about ink into water because inks don’t tend to mix for a while after hitting the water.  

One of my inspirations for photographing these ink and water images was a photographer names Christiane Zschommler whom I discovered at an exhibition called ‘light works’. – ‘Reflections in water have become the central theme of her photographic work, with the constantly changing rhythm of the reflections being seen to echo the unreliability of memory. The rippling, intensly coloured images showcase the abstract qualities of light and the beauty of every day’. The colours that Christiane Zchommler had captured in her photographs really stood out to me and inspired me to create some of my own intense and beautiful photographs with brightly coloured ink. 

Dropping the coloured ink into the water was an amazing process to watch, it almost looked like materials floating around inside the vase that I had used to capture the ink inside. When the ink hits the water it slowly expands and falls down to the bottom of the vase. The patterns created are fascinating to the human eye, there is something that makes you stare at whats infront of you; the pattern? the colours? 

This is dog

This idea originally came from a triangle i had once painted onto a wall and left over time after realising i had no use for it, when a peer of mine decided in attempt to be comical to write ‘this is dog’ next to the shape. However if anything this attempt at comedy from my peer turned out to inspire me more than anything…

Up to this point I had only been been writing the incorrect colour or form next to the shape but I had never thought about labelling the forms with something completely different to what it actually is. i also think the writing next to the shape is successful as its quite a childlike font of writing which brings a sense of innocence which makes it easier for the viewer to believe that the artist believes that the shape is in fact an actual dog.

this triangle is yellow

Idea: A series of miniature triangles around the exhibition room with different text next to the shape, some factual and some untruthful. Having a mixture of of factual and in factual messages next to the shapes makes the viewer confused and question what they are seeing as some of what they have seen is correct adding a layer of ambiguity to the piece as a whole.

The most unsuccessful part about this piece is the non precise lines of the triangle, this has been a reoccurring problem throughout my experiments with hand drawn triangles especially being painted onto the wall. I think something i could do to improve the shapes lines and edges is to perhaps use photoshop to create equal sides of the shapes.