Ok, so I've never done nor heard of manipulating images to the extent we learned in class today. The idea was to take images that I had printed or photocopied and start this process of creating a whole new image and meaning.
We were shown how to create new images by tearing, scrunching, collaging, transparently painting white or black paint in certain areas or all over as well as scribbling and sandpapering parts of the images.
There is this kind of inner turmoil of taking a perfect image and having to in some ways create new meaning through this process of manipulation. This activity was all about trust and patience, the more time I gave to it, especially in one sitting, the more a conversation between myself and the manipulating appeared.
I had manipulated a bunch of images at the same time, which allowed me to move on to other images more frequently getting less and less caught up in whether the image 'looked perfect' or not.
There were many times when my intuition was challenged as I would continually receive this thought "I think that's enough", "But is it enough?", a constant dialogue of uncertainty and discomfort although most of the time it was just noise because there was never a right or wrong way of approaching this activity. If I thought I'd made a mistake, there was always the option to re-print the original image and start again, yet my stubborn self rarely took that option.
Below are a few images I have manipulated.
These images will become ideas for our final painting in Week 6.
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