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. 

UPDATE - 10.04.2014.

After a week in Italy taking photos for this project, I am back! It was extremely helpful going down to be able to visit places where my Grandmother worked and lived and I'm very excited to develop my photos tomorrow to see what I managed to capture whilst away. As well as having taken photos I stumbled upon a small flea market where I purchased 40 postcards/photos for only €4!! I'm extremely excited to use them within my work and will scan a few of them in to show on here. In the meantime I am going to post up a few bits of work which I had made prior to my holiday but didn't have a chance to share! 

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. 

DISTORTION 1 - 27.03.2014.

Here's the first image that I chose to work with from the experimental scans I made. I played around with making the subtle glows of colour more visible as well as adding my Grandmothers name in the bottom corner. I think this image works nicely since I haven't settled for my usual A4 layout and actually really enjoyed working on a longer, more rectangular scale. The blurriness of the images and warped look create a sense of broken memories and in this case a broken identity. 

EXPERIMENTATION - 27.03.2014.

Since this project focuses around memories I thought it would be interesting to play around with blurring images and blending them together with others. Certain memories can be clear as anything whereas others can become mixture. I experimented with using the Blur and Smudge tool on Photoshop to see what effects I could create and add to my own images. I particularly love these two images since they were purely accidental to see what would happen. 

The top image was made using the Blur tool and it slowly created a soft focus effect which added a dream-like quality to the photo. I'd like to play around with adding other images to this but I feel this is a powerful image on its own. The second image is a photo of my Grandmother added over the top of the above image. I like how her arms have blended in with the water to create a pleasant calming feeling. I'd like these images to be used for the first half of my narrative idea to show my Grandmother enjoying her family and living her life.