Last week was independent study week. I have been investigating pixilation and blurring to represent the indistinguishability/ transparency of older women. I experimented with blurring - Gerhard Richter style - by using black, white and grey pens onto photographs.
Interesting but I'm not sure whether this is a technique I can use so I reverted to testing pixillation.
During this week I met with other students to use the drawing studio. They know what they want to achieve and they are experimenting, testing, drawing, printing and painting with enthusiasm. I'm feeling quite anxious because I am not finding a way forward yet.
I think I have chosen a very difficult topic. I want my project about ageing to be positive. It would be all too easy to mock or ridicule ageing with all its indignities and unattractiveness (I couldn't bring myself to write 'ugliness'). However, I am writing about life in the third age before the 'dereliction' of the forth age. 'Dereliction' is a word used in academia which 'signals moral collapse ....stains, drooping hems, down at heel shoes'. Blimey!
Anyway, back to the studio. I used the time to paint and make marks in colours which I can use for cutting and pasting pixillated images.
I have used Photoshop to create pixillated images (see right) but they look flat and lack impact.
I cut squares from the paintings to create a mosaic which I was pleased with. It could be used for a border but I am hoping I might be able to use the mosaic technique to create text.
Meanwhile I have been revising my question to older women - asking them how they want to live their life in their third age. This has resulted in more interesting responses. I think this is make or break week - either I give up, refer or go ahead with direction. Hope I go ahead but time is very tight.
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