'Fauna': Photography (continued)

I further experimented with photographs but through a more 'hands-on' approach. The means of productione of negative images made me feel significantly disconnected from my own work and because of that, I was dissatisfied.
This alternative style I decided on was vaguely inspired Andy Warhol's use of single colours to often remove the original shape and/or outline of an object in the image. I worked on two different approaches towards the style: physical and digital alteration.

Both methods involved outlining a number of areas from a selected image and then replacing those areas with a flat space of colour. For the 'physical' alteration, I printed out the photograph and then cut away the selected areas with a craft knife, before sticking the photo onto another card with a particular colour painted onto it. The digital alterations had the areas 'cut out' as well but instead the colour as added in digitally, with any physical samples printed out onto canvas-like paper.

'Physical Alterations':

'Warhol's Gull' (2010)



'Warhol's Pigeon' (2010)

Out of the interest of observing contrast in 'physical' and digital alterations, one of the original photos was used for both methods ('Warhols' Pigeon').

Digital Alterations:

'Warhol's Baboon' (2010)

'Warhol's Pigeon' (2010)

While attempting to print sample images of the digital alterations, a rather unexpected result was produced. The two images were printed over each other creating a bizarre but somewhat amusing 'hybrid image'.

'Warhol's PigeonBaboon' (2010)

Despite this experimentation, I never came to a decisive enough piece for produce from this media.