From the vault – the inner eye series

For my year 10 art project called mixed up images – we did a unit where we had to

1. create a collage / photo montage to create a photograph negative
2. photocopy the picture onto paper

3. Photocopy the picture to Over Head Projector (OHP) transparency (clear plastic)
4. Use the OHP picture to develop as a photograph in the dark room (looking back we were pretty lucky to have a dark room and be able to develop our own photos).

I started by doing some concept drawings to develop my idea.

This is an eye inside is a person in the control room (wow this was before inside out!) and there’s tiny people in the eye duct drawing from the well they are ‘drawing up tears’ front the well which are ‘welling up’ and bucketing down to allow a single tear to form.  The tiny men use the blood vessels and capillaries to travel around as though they’re just walk around little tunnels.

Photo montage placed on top. Here I’ve replaced the control centre with a person in jail surrounded by images of poverty, sickness and sadness. Things that we see which might make us sad. Instead of the pupil it’s a spiral which represents both the downward spiral of sadness and depression and also the mental state of the person with these things swirling in the mind its no wonder the tiny men are bucketing tears and causing tears to well up.

Looking back I can see how innovative this process is and grateful that I had the opportunity to play and experiment with these different materials in my formative years.

Knowing that you can create art in different ways really opens up your mind to other possibilities and to not be restrained by anyone medium or process.