As a response to David Hockney’s work, I ended up making a physical joiner as well as the digital ones made within photoshop. In order to make these joiners, I ended up printing off sections of my digital joiner into small pieces and began to assemble them together on a piece of card. I started off by assembling them on a white card so that I could see my images composed together easier and get an understanding of what formation I believe would work best.

—- Experiments —-

I wanted to play around with the formation of the sections within the joiner, so I positioned them in slightly different ways and continued to take photos throughout each stage. I checked to see which organisation of images I preferred, to see if it looked better with less or more images or even just the way the overall joiner is shaped.

—- Process of making the joiner —-

Whilst making my joiner, I thought about experimenting with the idea of making it slightly 3D and not just a flat 2D joiner. I decided to choose three images that lay on the surface of the joiner and stuck them on top of pieces of foam board. I then cut them out and stuck them in their original positions on top of the 2D joiner.

Final outcome of my joiner

When making my joiner, I did enjoy forming the overall structure of how I wanted the final outcome to look. With making digital joiners, the images are usually just automated instantly and set up in an already organised formation with many interesting shapes. This method allowed for me to have more control over what I was wanting to achieve rather than have a computer organise everything for me.

Overall, I am very happy with the results of my joiner but next time if I were to make another one, I would like to consider using less images as sometimes I printed off images that were way too similar and just unnecessary to put into the final joiner. The extra images made the process slightly more confusing and I did actually end up discarding a few extra prints as I thought they served no purpose in the final product.