Sunday, April 12, 2009
Artist Statement on current project
The project I am currently working on is influenced by the paintings of Francis Bacon. My final work will be a series of 12 images trying to recreate the same painterly gestures and nightmarish/frightening mood of Francis Bacon paintings. I'm shooting the photographs with film and printing them in the darkroom. Each photograph contains one individual being shot under dramatic lighting, while in motion. Then in the darkroom, I overlap two different negatives, that don't match up, to make the image more fearful, then paint the developer onto the photo paper to give it a painterly quality. Im experimenting with techniques such as motion, lighting, and the darkroom process, to create photographs that are not pretty, but dark and disturbing.
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Sounds good, the one thing that I would ask is:
ReplyDeletedo you have a particular reason for picking Bacon? Is there a specific "tug" towards his work and if so maybe perhaps mention this as a connection to why you want to make not pretty, but dark and disturbing photographs.