Week 10 and 11 - including paper cutting

Following on from experimenting with monoprinting and polyprinting, I have incorporated this into my work.

 

Here, I stuck the monoprint to the piece of corrugated card and cut into it, revealing the textured underside. I peeled away so that corrugated and more smoother sections of the card could be seen to create more texture.

Moving on from this, I started looking at how to hide someone's identity; still using the monoprints and polyprints.

 In this image, I took the idea of collaging that I have been using and did so over the face to make the soldier unrecognisable.

 Instead of using the monoprint in the foreground as I did above, I used it in the background instead. This can only be seen where the head of the soldier would be and so it represents the frantic state of mind that the soldier has displayed through multiple marks like horizontal lines and dots.

For this I wrote part of an identification number in biro over the top of a polyprint. The shade of green that is used is too bright and should be darker to represent camouflage more accurately. Also, using biro doesn't provide a vivid or good quality outcome.

 I have removed the figures of two team players to represent the fallen in battle. I have done this to represent how, after so long, the deceased are no longer remembered.

 I have cut out individual numbers in the style of the printed identification on equipment like kit bags. I cut these out of a darker green polyprint and I think that this shade is a lot more representable of the military theme.

Paper cutting

 Paper cutting is where you take an image and secure it to another piece of paper, you then cut away the desired pieces using a knife on top of a cutting mat. Whilst doing this, some of the useful things I found were: cutting a thicker line adds more dimension, that cutting out a solid object creates a template and to be able to create detailed outcomes you must leave tabs around the edge of the image.