BOOK LAYOUT FINAL / TITLES - 12.05.2014.

Unknown / A Reflection.

The Angel / Lost.

Answers / Forgotten.

Family / Pure.

Dini, Maura / Double Vision. 

Comfort / Healing.

A Holiday / A Mother.

Belongings / Hidden. 

Floating / A Secret.

The Smile / Roma. 

Girl / Questions.

Sanctuary / The Vatican.

Fontana dei Trevi / Wasted Wishes.

Identity / Treviso. 

Sposa / Prayers.

Connected / Unsolved.

PAGE LAYOUTS / EXPERIMENTS - 4.05.2014.

Here are some more developments for page layout ideas. I scanned in some sections of a couple of scarves that belonged to my Grandmother and placed them alongside the more simple collages. I'm not too sure how I feel about them to be honest. Part of me feels like they work and the other half feels like they don't! Maybe I should try placing them next to my other images or even some of the photographs to see if that works better. 

I quite like the third one down where I have put two collages together. I think this could work nicely as a double page spread within a book or even as an A3/A2 print. I started introducing my photos from Italy since I was unsure as to how to use them within this work. I think they work really well when next to my collages or even another photo, as seen with the angel statues. These are all places and monuments that my Grandmother would have visited, spent time in and taken her family to numerous times throughout her life and bind my images together nicely.  

EXPERIMENTS - 4.05.2014.

These are a couple of images that I have been playing around with. You might recognise the second one from my previous post where I had incorporated text into the image as well. I thought these would be nice to have next to some of my more cinematic/powerful collages since I plan to turn this into a book for my exhibition space. I think it would be interesting to have a mixture of full bleed imagery and simple collages like these throughout the book. 

DEVELOPMENT - 28.04.2014.

I decided to take a step back from my current work since I am happy with the images that I have already made thus far and didn't want to keep editing them to the point where they become overworked. I wanted to experiment with using shapes to create some more abstract pieces. I played around with adding a little bit of text which I really like and would like to explore this further by using different words perhaps and maybe a repeat pattern. I think these would work nicely within one of the book format ideas I previously spoke about to break up the imagery slightly too. 

MOTION BLUR - 18.04.2014.

Here are some different variations for the top image that I made a few days ago. I'm always keeping in mind the lack of identity that my Grandmother would have felt being an orphan  and displaying this through the distortion of certain images. The distortions and changes I make are sometimes quite obvious and some have been very slight, almost blending into the original photo itself. I like having the contrast of the two so I have been making sure that I have kept that balance running through this side of the narration. 

BELONGINGS - 11.04.2014.

I thought it would be interesting to create some collages by using the few belongings that I have of my Grandmother I don't have many items left other than photos, a couple of purses, some jewellery and a watch. For this collage I scanned in a pair of her gloves that she'd used for her communion since I really liked the lace fabric and wanted to see what it would look like after being scanned. I manipulated the image by moving it whist in the scanner then afterwards I played around with the smudge tool on PhotoShop as well as adding layers of colour. 

DISTORTION 5 - 11.04.2014.

I've been trying out different ways to portray my Grandmothers lack of identity and this image is one of my favourites so far. I wanted to keep it as subtle as possible to contrast the longer more busy images I'd made before. The small shots of colour running through the photo keep the dream like quality to it as well as the half blurred face. I think this would be a good image to have blown up and printed out to either A2 or A1 in size. 

DISTORTION 4 - 11.04.2014.

I chose to crop in on a section of the bigger scan of this so I could work more closely on top of it. I played around with layering different sections of the longer image over the top to create these slightly strange ghostly images. The first one is my favourite from the three since I layered a small portion of colour over the top which adds a nice quality to it. Again these images all relate to my Grandmother's identity, or lack of in a way.

DISTORTION 3 - 27.03.2014.

These are the bigger and longer versions of the cropped in images I had previously shared. I particularly like the second and third one down since the colours work really well together as well as how the repetition of my Grandmothers face has created a melancholic quality to it. I'd like to see if I can try and merge these two together even though there is a big colour difference, one being so light and the other being almost blacked out, but it would be interesting to see if I could fade one into the other. 

DISTORTION 2 - 27.03.2014.

For these images I used a mixture of a photograph of my Grandmother as well as scanning in parts of my own hand and combining the two together. When I moved the photograph through the scanner it created this striped dragged effect down one side which I love since it feels like what a barely there memory would look like or one that is only partially remembered but is fading away. The idea to add in scans of my own hand was to represent holding onto a memory but also how I was never able to meet her.