Ellie-May Dodgson UAL Art and Design✨

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Antonio Mora Dupla

This is another contextual which I feel uses double exposure in a different way compared to the other artists I have been looking at. I feel like this would work well more specifically for bipolar as the contrast again between natural destruction and the destruction of the brain/ body could be linked in well with this.

Andre De Freitas

Contextual inspiration for bipolar. I like this idea as I feel like I could relate the destructive power of nature with the destructive nature of mental health illnesses and the effects they can have on a person regardless of what disorder. I thought I could link this in well with my work which I would like to focus on mental health illness.

Planning

I have been planning my next few shoots which I have based on Schizophrenia, Addiction and Bipolar. I've thought of several ideas for edits looking at various contextuals and case studies to influence these shoots. I have mainly been looking at double exposures in different ways for edits and movement ideas.

I created 4 edits in order to develop my images further and get more meaning across. I decided to focus on the process of the makeup application to cover any feeling of 'ugliness' the women in my case study suffered with when at her worst point in her disorder.

I decided to keep the edits simplistic as I didn't want to spend to long on this part of the project as I had other shoots planned which I felt I could push more.

However, I could go back to this shoot and use my creative making skills to push these images further.

My favourite image is the image of the concealer and the eyes as I feel like this suggests the emotional pain that someone with BDD goes through although sometimes it can't be seen. I feel like this holds the most meaning.

Contact sheet for BDD Development shoot.

Brief

My intention for this photoshoot was to develop the previous shoot on BDD. In the last shoot I focused more on the emotion within the person based on the case study, however in this one I have focused more on what the words say but more particularly about the appearance and how she only felt confident once she had a full face of makeup. For this shoot I will consider props and the angle in which I take my images. Within my edits I also want to focus on colour and contrast.

To edit my images further, I have also decided to glitch them. I thought this would be interesting as I had seen a students work in the year above and thought it would be suitable to include in my project in terms of mental health. I thought this was relevant due to the focus on Body Dysmorphic Disorder. The different types of 'glitch' was relevant as I felt like this distorted the natural image of the face.

WWW- I felt like this linked to the case study as she felt like she was ugly and couldn't let anyone see her bare face, not even her family. I feel like this is an accurate representation as you cant actually see the natural face at all as it is either glitched, blurred or collaged.

EBI- I could develop these images further such as using over lays or adding text.

Further Mira Schendel responses.

I then moved on to looking at contextual artist Mira Schendel. Due to the fact I have been using case studies to make my work more accurate, I hand drawn my alphabet, scanned them in and put them into Photoshop. In this case I dragged out the letters I needed to spell out the phrase shown in the images and I began experimenting by overlaying the words/ text/ letters onto my images from my BDD shoot for further developments. I will continue to improve this in my next shoot as I want to continue to embed typography in my work.

Penelope Umbrico Developments.

These were my original edits from my BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder) Shoot. I wanted to get across various different emotions such as feeling numb, confused, fake (trying to be happy). After looking at the BDD case study I picked out words and phrases and translated this into how I thought this would make this person feel in a visual sense. I was still inspired by Francesca Woodman and continued to take images of myself as I thought this would be more interesting and relevant to my contextuals. WWW- I think I got across the meaning of BDD and when relating this back to the case study I felt like I was successful. EBI- I could have taken more images at body length, focusing on clothes, body language etc.

From my BDD shoot, these are my photogram developments. I decided to use previous edited photos and to add effect add the photogram in different ways also adding meaning. As I am focusing on mental health disorders the aim of this was to add purpose looking at emotion. I decided to use colour and black and white images as I feel they show different kinds of emotion, the black and white to me seem more like the feeling of being suffocated. WWW- I think these edits made the photos more interesting. EBI- I could have tried to edit these more in different ways or been more abstract with my edits.

Weekly Reflection

This week I have been focusing on my edits of my BDD shoot. I have had tutorials with my tutor and decided to focus much more on my creative making on the images for this shoot. While I have been focusing on my editing I have also planned what I will be doing for my next two shoots. For the BDD shoot I decided to look at a case study and show how the emotion and feelings shown throughout this study. For my next shoot I am going to focus on particular words she describes herself as such as 'frizzy hair' 'going through a concealer stick each week' etc. For the shoot after this I am also going to focus on Schizophrenia but I am yet to have a tutorial with my specialist tutor to see how I will tackle this shoot.

Weekly Reflection 24-28.4.17

-This week I have been focusing on my Alison Lambert artist copy so I can then produce my own responses. I have almost finished the drawing for my copy but I will also then create a collaged background to scan my copy onto to achieve more of the texture from the original. -Outside of lessons I have been developing more of my print work. I have revisited my etchings as I think my first developments could have been more relevant to my theme of ageing. -Now I will finish my artist copy and begin responses.

I then decided to carry on with the style of Alina Zamanova as this was what I was basing my last shoot on still looking at the photography of Francesca Woodman. For these photographs I linked all I had previously learned together such as the meaning behind colour association, cyanotype developments and the images I had previously taken. Like the last edits I chose to pick the colours I used carefully due to what I wanted to get across to the audience. As an improvement I also decided to be more abstract when using the colours as the last edits I created in the style of Zamanova were more tight and not as loose as I would have liked.

After being inducted on cyanotypes, these were the final results of my prints. I felt that these were successful due to the fact of the high contrast within each of the images I decided to use. However when I was actually printing the images, when washing the chemicals off I feel like if I didn't hold the water on the images for so long they would have came up much clearer and better. If I was to do this again I would make sure I edited this correctly before hand ensuring I had all the detail I wanted in the image and be more cautious of the amount of time I washed the chemicals off for to get the best final outcome.

I then moved on to developing my images further. Before editing these images I looked at artist Alina Zamanova and was inspired by her style of work to create these developments. I also looked into colour association looking at the meaning behind each colour and how they relate to different emotions or feelings. Behind each colour I used there was an emotion which corresponds with it and I chose the colours I used carefully depending on what colours (/emotion) I felt related to the images best. WWW- I feel like i interpreted the artists style well and felt like these images were successful due to the colours I used and the reasons behind this. EBI- i felt it would have been interesting if I went over the images much more abstract instead of sticking around the typical outline.

Second Shoot

For this shoot I was still focusing on looking at mental health in a general sense. These were two of the photos I felt created more of a narrative rather than just an image as I feel it makes the audience think more about the meaning behind the picture. In particular for the first image, I overlayed 3 images, my intentions for this was to show different emotion looking at what someone with a mental health disorder would be thinking rather than showing on the outside. I also purposely used both a girl and a boy over layed in the same image to show it isn't just one particular gender or type of person who suffers with mental health disorders, it can be seen in a wide range of people. For the second, I wanted to show more physical pain, I edited this image using both black and white then colour. The reason behind adding the black and white filter on the person was to show the dullness and lack of happiness the person feels and the colour was left on the surrounding areas to show that there is happiness and colour around this person but due to the mental health disorder they can't see the good around them.

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