Last session I had a play on the photocopier with Susan. Using the HDR image I produced last week I utilised various techniques in order to create new images: enlarged small details, scrunched up a copy and rescanned, rotated whilst scanning (which resulted in a skate ramp!) and finally got silly with head shots and hands. Produced some really interesting results - certainly one of the head/hand images would work well if pasted into a confined space (think genie in a bottle type scenario). Tried emailing some of these images directly to Mark but he hasn't forwarded them yet so not sure whether they found their destination or not! Will post them if they turn up (alternatively could always just photograph them) Did a bit of googling on photocopy art and stumbled across a few interesting artists: have posted links and a couple of images below. Really interested in the work of Helen Chadwick (used her body a lot) but was unable to find any really good images online - will try the college library to see if they have any of her books. Also liked Thomas Eisner's Fanciful Designs - could incorporate his technique of placing objects on the glass in order to create elements for my landscape (if you follow the link you can see quite a few of his images where he creates birds etc out of found objects)
Helen Chadwick 'Of Mutability'
Thomas Eisner's Fanciful Designs
bit more info on the history of copy art here (Copy This! A Historical Perspective On the Use of
the Photocopier in Art by John A. Walker)
the Photocopier in Art by John A. Walker)
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