The photographs came from a stall in Depford market, where there were boxes and boxes full of old family photo albums, postcards, documents, letters ect..... I have also used some from my own family collection.
I think the leather works well and complements these photographs because of the natural earthy browns and tan colours,leather is tough old skin contrasting with the fragility of the images.
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In this photograph I really like the form of the girls' gathered swimsuit and wanted to highlight it by replicating the shape with a nice pale soft leather. |
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I poured hot wax onto the leather to resist the dye, then repeated to create different tones recembling the shapes in the cave on in the photo. |
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The same technique used again to highlight the beautiful discolouration on the original photo. |
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I like the contrast of leather textures of the smooth taught ball the boy is holding to the fibrous textured sample of leather. |
I spoke to my tutor about the ideas of using collages as a means of designing and exploring the places that would be interesting to design on. I like the way it makes sense and links up random materials or images into a meaningful way creating connections that would never have been thought about. This is particularly appropriate to my project as I am trying to combine and associate the solid shapes and forms of furniture/interiors to the fluid contours of the body.
For this project I want my collages to be a big part of the designing/ development process as it will allow me to explore interesting ideas, different forms and shapes. Inspired highly by what I saw by John Stezaker.