Following this weeks visual language session and the examples from our presentation I wanted to craft something of handmade aesthetic. After the presentation I decided that I would collage found photographs before applying paint allowing me to work in a new controllable manor.
I began work by photocopying photographs from architectural books and simply arranged cut out segments of buildings at the bottom of the page to form a basic landscape of sorts. From here I searched thoroughly for appropriate parts of a representative mutant for my tribe of sorts.
Having found a book regarding an Australian pygmy tribes I photocopied old photographs of stern figures posing with artefacts in a ploy to present these people as a mysterious aquatic tribe. I then cut the figures out and painted diving gear (from reference) onto the them. In accordance with my subject matter I wanted to make a welcome poster to an underwater civilisation of sorts. I decided that when it came to making a representation of the mutant race that inhabited this place it should be mysterious.
Overall I struggled with the process this week as collage was something unfamiliar to me. My poster is overly simplified and on reflection I would have liked to put more into the backdrop architecture. I believe that I reserved myself somewhat treading carefully. More risk taking would have resulted in something more exciting, I will try to bare this in mind on future projects.
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