As i have been considering with my stories/ games i played at childhood how the dens completely created another world for a couple of hours i wanted to take some abstract photographs to convey this. As i started thinking about how in my random scribbling’s we always had to go to sleep to wake up in reality from the game world i wanted to explore this idea by creating some abstract images. I decided to create a sculpture made of paper which i could shine bright multi-coloured lights onto to create psychedelic patterns. I wanted to create images which play with your mind a little bit. I made the sculpture by cutting patterns into paper and then twisting the paper together to form a spiral. I thought the idea of the photographs being circular was quite important as it normally causes your eyes to travel inwards along the spiral and you become slightly lost in it all. I then shone a disco light which was flashing multi-colours into the center of the sculpture and this created the images below. I am defiantly going to use these photographs juxtaposed with my dens in some sense.
Overall i think they worked better than i expected. This was just going to be a quick experimentation in which i considered this small sub section of my project but overall i really love the effect that the images have. There is something very other worldly about the photographs which draw you in and almost suggest a portal to another world. This was exactly the impression i was going for with the images and so i’m glad they turned out so effectively. I did of course increase the contrast and saturation in all of the images, wanting bright and vibrant colours to add to the overall effect.
The two above images were blurry photographs which i took of the sculpture but i still really love them. The blurred nature of them actually adds to the surrealism as there is nothing to focus on completely. I quite like how with a lot of the images the composition of the photograph is exactly the same it is just the colours which have changed.
The completely contrasting colours of the photographs also works really well as some images have completely different moods to them. The red photographs appear angry, all of this occurring due to the association of colours and feelings within our own minds.
These pinks and purples in these photographs create a completely different impression, more of a magical impression.
