Fri 7 Apr 2006
Splintering of Personality - latest art work
Posted by Wayne under Photoshop , Digital Art , Art , PhotographyBelow is the latest photomedia piece I have created, called Splintering of Personality, and a series of detail views of small sections of it. The original is quite dark and very large, sized for 2 metre by 2 metre square. It is part of my Road to Elysium series and explores the concept that traumatic events cause the death or splintering off of parts of our selves or souls.
In the piece I mix reworked grave scenes into suburban streets and locations. The piece was done in Photoshop from many digital photographs I shot and is composed from some 150 layers, each with layer masks and adjustment layers.
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April 9th, 2006 at 2:19 am
Hi Wayne, It’s hard to get a true impression of such a large work - in size and complexities - from the image above, but I’d have to say that it was surburbia which dominated a first view for me (did you try having any of the cemetery components either more central or larger; to move them into more dominance …) - just a (small) thought. But I like the ephemeral feel, inclusive of and confirmed by the grasslike texturing, very much.
John
April 9th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Hi John, yes on this scale it is hard to get the full picture. I do think it is quite balanced in perception at the full resolution with the right impact, but of course that is a personal perception.
I’m glad you like and thanks.
April 9th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Interesting work, Wayne! Working with layers is always a very magical practice, it seems. It’s all very much like the way the mind works, affording views that we choose to give more precedence to, over other views that we may choose, perhaps unconsciously to hide… or allow only partial access to. We light up those areas that are special in some way, and obviously darken those that we don’t want to expose, for one reason or another. Things occur within the realm of what we like, and what we don’t like, that seems very psychological to me.
Things are embedded within the whole. Some things merge with others, at certain points, and something entirely new occurs. Fragments of this or that suddenly gather together to form a unique image that is a unified whole, affording a dynamic vision that illuminates… making everything visible, to shock, startle or amaze.
You’re off the beaten track, Wayne, and that’s always good!!
Bogartte
April 9th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
Thanks.
Yes, the power of layer is awesome. They allow fine control and the ability to come back and reexamine.