Exam – Evaluation – Experimentation / Responses:

John Stezaker –  I really enjoyed creating my responses for John Stezaker, not only were they easy but they were also very closely represented. I like the way that they turned out and how I was able to create some interesting photographs with interesting meanings behind each one of them to create my version of the truth. I also really liked the visuals of putting two faces together, and I personally think it looks very interesting and it looked almost as if I created a whole new person.

Liz Steketee – My experimentations and responses to Liz Steketee were my favorite responses to create. This is due to the fact that I really connected to her visuals and how she was working with the images in various different, simply yet very creative and effective ways. Therefore, after looking closely at her work , I got really excited to start producing my own responses to her work. I also like the fact that the images that she has worked looked very similar to mine and therefore I feel like that allowed me to connect more to her work and therefore be able to produce similar photo montages.

Chino Otsuka –  This was the responses that I least enjoyed. This is because of the fact that I found it very hard to create almost like an illusion like Chino Otsuka creates with her photo montages. When I was trying to create my own responses, I didn’t really like the outcomes as much I did for other artists, and this is because I felt like I needed to approach this situation the same way as Chino Otsuka approached hers when she was creating these photo montages, however that was just impossible to do therefore I just tried my best. using all the Photoshop skills I knew to create my best responses.

Joachim Schmid – These responses were fun to create digitally and also manually. I decided that, just in case the photographs did not come out the best way when I was trying to do the ripping effect digitally using Photoshop, that I would also print out some photographs onto some printer paper and rip them up just like Joachim Schmid has done. However, with the right brushes that I had found online and had downloaded I was able to create some interesting photographs, which I am happy with the outcome of.

My own – I decided that I would do my own version of some of these photographs as I was in the process of creating my responses for my other artists. I like the way that they cam out, as I feel like I had more creative control over the outcome of the images and therefore I was able to include or exclude whatever I wanted, however always keeping the theme and aesthetic in mind. I feel like some of my own responses are as strong visually and contextually as some of my responses to my researched artists, where I had less creative control however being inspired by them and their own work.

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