Kensuke Koike
Here I have recreated one of Koike’s pieces of work using photoshop. To make this piece I took two original images of my dad and brother, edited them so make them monochromatic and them took triangle sections from my dads eyes and placed them over my brothers face to create a weird optical illusion. the fact that my dad has so much more facial texture than my brother makes for an interesting image as contrast is created through the difference between smooth and uneven skin.
Furthermore, I like how these two pieces are so similar yet so different, as Koike’s piece is composed of three different people whilst mine is only made of two, but, they both still link to the idea of family identity. I think that the second piece in this gallery is the most successful as the tones are subtle, even though this isn’t as much like Koike’s work, I still think that it came out as a good artist reference as it clear I have mostly copied his work. In addition, I took his style of image and created it in colour, but it think the texture in this image isn’t as visible, so it lacks depth.
Yoshikatsu Fujii
I have combined two old family photographs, one from my mums side and one from my dads. I created this piece by placed these images into Photoshop, then taking a image of an red string from google and placing in it the middle, so it would look the same as Koike’s. The main reason for me recreating his work is because I am intrigued by his ‘Red String’ project, which is based on the distance in his family after his parents separation.
Here I have selected two images of my grandparents when they were young, one from my mums side and one from my dads. On Photoshop I cropped both of these images, cropping out some people that weren’t as influential to me and my parents lives, so I was left with less of my family members. Afterwards I used the brush tool, adjusted the side using the bracket keys, and took many attempts and drawing a line down the middle to represent the string in the image above, as there was no images that were useful on google.
The idea behind this piece is that my dads side of the family would contrast with my mums, the piece on the right is composed of photos of my grandad, dad, uncle and brother. Whilst the right is of my uncle, aunt, and mum, the red string from my dads side not connecting to my mums, the message of this is to represent how these sides of my family are so different, and you can even see which facial features my dads side of my family share.
