Reflecting on the progress of my figure/background pieces and want to modify the posed shots in some way to make them more comic-like, and to add more drama as they feel a bit two-dimensional at the moment. Experimenting with drawing over images and digital modification in photoshop.
Current options I have considered for hanging sculpture:
- Panels suspended horizontally over large 2D floor image (initial reaction)
- Tower/box type sculpture with clear perspex top from which panels and other imagery are suspended, layer upon layer so that from a bird’s eye view through the perspex, one can see the full image. All horizontal.
- Short narrative, translated into hanging comic book (vertically, similar to my smoking man sculpture), which progressively falls to pieces (all pieces remain suspended in air, at different angles and heights) all the way to the floor.
At this stage, it is safe to say that the third option would clearly create the most visually exciting piece, if not the largest, most complex, most costly and most time-consuming to assemble. This all aside I believe it would create the most effective final piece in relation to my project.
