Project 1_KatieC

 

Stephanie Seirou-Aarten

Irina Yanikova

Les Rucinski 

I love the warm earthy tones that Yanikova uses in her first scan and how it looks like it's underwater and just floating at the surface. I think that mixed with the concept of the bubbles in her second image would be really cool elements to play with to create images. Mixed with the soft edges of the images scanned by Rucinski and the warmth and sharpness achieved by Seirou-Aarten I think there are some really interesting things that could happen within this scanography project. Seirou-Aarten creates a really cool image that almost looks like were looking at a pool of trailing liquid (almost like dragging) and in that liquid is the warm reflection of a doorway. I want to implement some aspects of each of these artists into my first scanography project. 

My Scans:

Final Project 

My project focuses around the pause I have had to take from travel and how that has affected me. In 2021 I hit a really hard point in my life and I used travel as a way to escape the everyday life. I was going on some sort of roadtrip every weekend and sometimes I'd be gone for a few days out of the week here and there. It ended up being the most healing thing for me and still continues to be. On each roadtrip, whoever I was with, we tried to find the best local breweries and diners and made that a main focus of finding the coolest spots wherever we went. Now that I am back in school and I work everyday and I am renovating a home and have a dog to take care of I don't get to travel as much if at all. Since I can't travel I still try to find cool breweries or make it a point to go to all my local places and try new craft beers with my friends and family as a way of somewhat fulfilling that need to explore. It's not traveling, but it's a way for me to intentionally make time for family and friends and try new things and maybe even find places we've never even known were right around the corner. 

To create my collage I used a series of scans, photographs, and the brush tool. At first this process was fairly hard for me. I have a hard time coming ups with concepts as it is with my own medium let alone with things that I never work with. I knew I wanted to relate everything to my love for travel and food, but had no idea it would end up here. At the beginning I was struggling trying to figure out how to use the scans and images I had gathered and was trying to piece together whole images or mostly whole images and a few pieces that I had grabbed from my initial materials. Towards the end I really got the hang of it and found new tools and shortcuts that made my process so much easier. Overall, I'm fairly happy with how things turned out and the improvements I have made as far as efficiency and quality.