Project_1 Samuel Price

 

In this first screenshot of a work by J. Steeley, I can see that they essentially just put some hand sculptures on the scanner with eggs to create their piece.

Here, Jens Standke seems to be using some kind of progressive scanner mixed with glass, or some other light distorting material in order to create what they intend to look like a human ribcage.

In this piece by Elena Kropaneva, I wonder if the used a filter to create the blurry distortion that subtly affects the whole piece, or if that's the result of the scanner and the light. Either way, it's a neat way to create a full piece using just a scanner, a flower, and someone's face & hand.

From what I've found, it seems like the main point of scenography is to mess around with a copy machine. Maybe take that into photoshop and touch it up too, but generally the first part. 

Anyways, to move onto my own attempt at using this method, I'll need to pick some kind of theme or narrative so I can create the 8 image minimum we're supposed to reach. I'm more of a writer than a philosopher so I'll go with narrative (I'm aware stories in themselves contain themes, but I find it much easier to write a theme in a story. Also, you can't just tell me to make a sequence of images and expect something that isn't a story. That's just dumb.)

Hands and clothes might be fun. Books too.

The five figures, first and last being images of myself, and the middle three being pulled from art by Piotr Jabłoński, are set up like a diagram for an ollie. Skateboards are a pretty central focus of the piece. One of the middle figures is being lifted by their cape by a figure in the sky, which could be interpreted a lot of ways, but I intend it to show that I either 1) need a miracle to do the trick, or 2) always get interfered with when trying to do the trick.

That last photo of me was taken after moving into my first apartment where my roommate and I tried to cook something. It went horribly wrong.

The piece that is repeated to form the background of the entire piece, as well as what I pulled the color scheme from, is Nocturne in Black and Gold — The Falling Rocket by James Whistler. For the sake of this piece, the only meaning that matters is the name. Falling Rocket. Falling. You get the idea.

This piece is essentially a really fancy way of me saying that even though I love to skateboard, I absolutely suck at doing tricks.