Final Images and Artist Comparison

When i began to shoot images for test shots and for the use of final imagery, i quickly realised the complications of my idea, to come across a scene in which a face is mysteriously presented by natural forming and acts of nature, i soon came to the conclusion, after hours of searching and cycling that the forming of these natural portraits could only be effectively achieved by slight, physical alterations on what was already there. In order to achieve this, i had to manipulate my surroundings in order to turn the setting to favour my idea, to assume the effect of a human portrayal. For example:

This image is of a broken fence that i found, already a gaping hole had been broken in the lower of the image and numerous slats had been broke  off the upper of the image, with the supporting wooding running through the middle of the upper hole, the fence already began to assume the role of a face. The image was so close to being complete, yet without the finishing touches i made the fence could not fully portray a face. First i removed a couple more slats from the lower hole and inserted a pointed slat through the wire face in the foreground of the fence to emulate the look of a nose.

In all of the images i have created for the use of my location project, i have made small tweaks and changes to the scene although the majority of the scene is already natural set beforehand. I believe my images are most suited for the use in an exhibition, portrayed as fine art photography. I believe my images desired audiences are of a wide variety due to the inclusion of numerous styles of photography these including: Fine Art, Portraiture, Location, Comical and Landscape styles of photography. I believe this primary shoot went really well and am pleased with the shots that i have acquired, upon the next shoot i will choose a different location, following similar themes and settings, along with the same idea of the portrayal of a face in everything i look at along with different techniques and processes in order to achieve this.

David Shrigley

David Shrigley; an artist of many extravagant talents, Shrigley's works cover a vast array of techniques, materials and processes, Shrigleys main bodies of works include music production, sculpting, illustration and photography. Shrigley's photography work, is all based on location, manipulated natural, simplistic images with the use of small adaptations, like this image:

The original scene in which is set with small, yellow flowers, Shrigley has added a larger, vibrant, tall, strong and powerful red flower; the image is titled Diana, the image represents the beauty that was princess Diana, almost a funny play on a 'rose between 2 thorns scenario. The dominance and 'break the mould' visage of the flower tells a short story of the wonderful life of Princess Diana, the 'beautiful flower', the lives that Diana changed all across the world is obviously very highly regarded by Shrigley and commended as with his very high representation of her.

The inspiration for my images came from the works of Shrigley in which some of his images, Shrigley has incorporated his own stylings to a natural scene, Shrigley has then on adapted the scenes to portray that of human features or personna. The image below is another of my final images, the original setting was a dock leaf plant in which was already naturally formed, i manipulated the dock leaf in order for it to portray a face, to achieve this i tore various holes in the leaf, in order to create a mouth and eyes, along with this a well positioned leaf created the nose of the dock leaf 'face'. While in the lower image, Shrigley has used an already fallen tree in which he has already fallen and been 'attacked' by nature, Shrigley has put the finishing touches upon this image by adding that of eyes, features which are notably human or living characteristics. I chose to use Shrigley's works as my inspiration as all of his images use such great simplicity yet effective, techniques creating an in depth and complex image capturing the viewers fascination.