Jane Philipps

Last week before class I became frustrated with the technicalities of Photoshop, but I was able to get back into it and produce 4 new photo-collages. I decided against using themes for each one because it became too tedious, so I just took the images that I had and worked with them. I like the way most of my collages turned out (minus the pixelation factor, which became a problem when I wanted to enlarge them), but I'm not quite sure how to move past them. I did a lot of writing during class to flesh out some new ideas that came to mind. For example, a few people told me that my images looked like they could be in travel brochures (and they were nearly postcard sized) so I thought about how I could relate my images to new, different concepts. For this week I am still using my images though. I'm making credit card sized books where I have dissected each image showing the progression from the smallest squares to the largest. To give them a more handmade quality, I am printing my images on rice paper--which is semi-transparent so you can see through to the next page--and binding the pages together with thread. I'm still not completely convinced by using images that are not my own, so I may try to take some of my own photographs to use and continue making these images. I would like to experiment with other media, but I still think photography is the best way to comunicate the relationships I'm creating.