Hello all,
I didn't know where else to post this because it is both figurative and landscape.
Not too far from where we live is the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a huge place with lots and lots of sculptures in the landscape, a great place to visit and to find the unexpected. We'd been there a number of times and I in my usual fashion kept thinking about photography, a figure and the YSP landscape.
I'd done a series of images wearing one of those Morph or Zentai suits and montaged these into various backgrounds at the time I was teaching myself digital art. From those images the idea of 'Everyman' surfaced, the anonymous figure representing any male.
I went to the YSP with the intention of making some images with a figure there but not yet in the images and then to pose at home wearing my Zentai. As I walked round I met a park ranger and chatted to him about my idea he said with a grin, "That's just the sort of thing they go in for here" and asked me to go to the information desk to find out which curator to get in touch with. I did that and met a very enthusiastic lady who gave me a name and an email address. Whether the enthusiasm will carry over to the curator I've no idea.
Eventually I will put the images together in Windows Movie Maker with slow crossfades and submit it to the curator with the idea that the images be projected onto a wall in one of the gallery buildings.
This is one of the montages to make the final image I had to make two exposures one for the shadows and one for the highlights and then combine them with a mask.
This is the before
and this the after
If you would like to see all three merging into one another please take a look at this page: http://www.jasread.com/opf.html
Cheers - Jim
I didn't know where else to post this because it is both figurative and landscape.
Not too far from where we live is the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a huge place with lots and lots of sculptures in the landscape, a great place to visit and to find the unexpected. We'd been there a number of times and I in my usual fashion kept thinking about photography, a figure and the YSP landscape.
I'd done a series of images wearing one of those Morph or Zentai suits and montaged these into various backgrounds at the time I was teaching myself digital art. From those images the idea of 'Everyman' surfaced, the anonymous figure representing any male.
I went to the YSP with the intention of making some images with a figure there but not yet in the images and then to pose at home wearing my Zentai. As I walked round I met a park ranger and chatted to him about my idea he said with a grin, "That's just the sort of thing they go in for here" and asked me to go to the information desk to find out which curator to get in touch with. I did that and met a very enthusiastic lady who gave me a name and an email address. Whether the enthusiasm will carry over to the curator I've no idea.
Eventually I will put the images together in Windows Movie Maker with slow crossfades and submit it to the curator with the idea that the images be projected onto a wall in one of the gallery buildings.
This is one of the montages to make the final image I had to make two exposures one for the shadows and one for the highlights and then combine them with a mask.
This is the before
and this the after
If you would like to see all three merging into one another please take a look at this page: http://www.jasread.com/opf.html
Cheers - Jim