For my ideas for the theme of Identity I am choosing to draw and write onto the physical pictures. I’m going to be doing this using white paint pens, writing and creating comments on the persons identity with the writing surrounding them.
I am going to be finding close information about the subject to write along the pictures, to make it a bit more intriguing and interesting I am going to be finding other ways to write the information such as significant places written using the longitude and latitude of places. This will make the information more interesting and mysterious as it will not be immediately clear what it means.
Above shows a piece done by conceptual artist Mel Bochner who has been active since the 1960s. A highly versatile artist, Bochner works with painting, installation art, and photography. His thesaurus paintings show overlapping synonyms executed in rainbow colors, while other pieces often take a single word, repeated for effect.
Although I am not working into a sculpture or the surroundings to then take the picture I feel I can relate what I am doing some how to Mel Bochner as I am going to be writing certain things for an effect just as Bochner does with the idea of repeating a word. This is a photograph an artist I can show where some of my inspiration has come from with how to go about the writing.
My Own Editing
Before going straight onto the actual images I started by printing on paper my layout to test how to work the paint pens and what I wanted going where so I could get a rough idea of what works and what doesn’t and also testing the thickness of the pens.
I have stuck to having only 5/6 ‘facts’ across the whole layout as I don’t want to over crowd the photographs, I have also chosen to draw into the actual photos not just with words as to make the photographs more intriguing.
Below shows how I finished off editing straight onto the prints, I stuck mostly in using codes as references towards significant places or things to do with the subjects identity. I have done this to try and make it more intriguing, knowing that the codes stand for something however they are not completely clear.
I have also added some outlines as highlights to certain parts of the page this is just to add something to the photograph and to make it more pleasing to the eye.
While editing onto the actual prints I did encounter some trouble with using the paint pens and this halted the process a little bit and made things a little more difficult however I feel that they still turned out in a way that I wanted them too.
