COLLAGE HEADS

For this piece of work, I got inspiration from Adrian Ghenie’s collage of Van Goughs’ face. His collages have so much impact and seem to replicate how he paints. Blocks of colours, layers and textures, and abstract but figurative enough to see that it is a face.

This gave me the idea to add collage faces to the paper bag, I know collages with facial features is not a new thing, but found Adrian Ghenie’s to be so powerful, that I wanted to do my own interpretation and stick it onto paper bags. I liked the idea of using paper bags, as I have used these in a couple of other projects and a paper bag when worn by someone, becomes a mask and this adds even more to the final outcome.

Instead of using faces from magazines I went through all the portraits I had taken and printed a selection with the faces blown up to A4 and A3.

I did two versions. One was where I cut out the features in blocks, and layered these onto each other. I also added in a few isolated black blocks, at the bottom of the face, otherwise there would have been too much flesh colour and I don't think this would have worked so well. I think this also showed more clearly that the cutouts where straight edged.

For the second version I cut out the shapes around the features with curved edges, and again stuck them down in layers. This looked much softer but slightly more bizarre.

PART TWO- 2018/19

PART TWO- 2018/19

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