Print Series

Words:

Stressed

Windy

Jen

Camera

Forest

1960s

Lotus

At first, I did struggle with a concept or unifying idea with these seven words. I began almost pasting ideas together through photoshop, not sure I was headed in the right direction. With a bit of frustration, I started to shoot some of the images I knew I wanted to have for this print series. Being that one of my words was camera, i decided to use my own photography and camera to fulfill this portion of the text. I have a high interest in photography and enjoy it very much. A lot of my work has a high contrast and play on light, so I knew I wanted my series to definitely reflect this portion of my art. I tried to use as much of my photography as possible, only incorporating an image of a forest and text that was not mine.

The first image I developed was one that incorporated Jen, forest, stressed, windy, lotus, 1960s and camera. I shot my friend Jen and layered these images, to represent the idea of stress. The saturated colors throughout the images and print itself reminded me of photography from the 1960s. The background is an image of a forest that i also layered to reflect the images of my friend. I placed text throughout the trees that come from a band called Lotus, but i also wanted to use the song to represent the windy category.

The second image I created deal with Jen, stressed, lotus, camera, windy, and 1960s. Again, I used images i shot of my friend Jen and layered them to represent a stressful environment. The colors throughout her image also reflected that of the 1960s photography in my eyes. The lotus text was again carried throughout this image and I drew a lotus flower in the upper corner of this image, carrying out the text idea and the over lotus category. I had originally placed a tattoo image of a lotus on Jens arm, but it did not work amongst the other image and the style and idea I was trying to convey.

The last image was one I struggled with a bit. I did not want to use another layering image of jen, but i did not however want to stray too far from the other two images i created. I took a portion of the camera image i had shot and used the lens to carry out the camera category. i took the forest image and again, two photos i had taken of Jen and that i used in the two other pieces, and warped them to look like a reflection of the lens. i layered and used minimal color in the photos, like i had been doing to get that 1960s camera feel. The text by lotus was once again carried out to reflect the lotus and windy category, but this time the text was a bit awkward to fit into the image. i am not extremely please with this last image as i am the two others, but i do feel as though it does work as a whole series.