After hours of sanding, filing, and more sanding I finally got down to a smooth, (finished?) hand. Ideally I would have preferred to have it thicker and more proportional if time had permitted. However, I enjoyed the experience and progression learning wood work techniques.
After the completion of our ‘second skin’, phase two of our habitat assignment involves the creation of a wooden hand that will edeentially accompany the paper fold. Using a topographic technique, layers of wood will be cut, sanded and glued in order to accentuate aspects of movement and human-like qualities.
First day in woodshop- mapping out
Using a photograph of choice, we focused on line and the way certain composition can effect perspective and create space.
My final series of portraits, achieved through multi-layering and manipulation of selected images ultimately depicts what I feel to be three monumental aspects of my life. There are six portraits altogether, each acting as a mirror image. By choosing to print the images on double side paper, a dynamic tension between the opposing frames is highly excentuated, ultimately iinfiltrating the frame.
Cindy Sherman – Doll Clothes 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUJlYsvdV7I
To finish off my project, I played around on photoshop using different double exposure techniques. First, I cropped my head shot so that it’s isolated from the background (using the pen to select and the refine tool to dispose of all unwanted, loose hair). Then, copying the selection over to my backdrop of images I have collaged, I began to work my two images into one. Carefully using a masking layer on my back image, I finished by erasing, manipulating levels, and then choosing a Screen blending option to create an overall, ghostly blend. On close observation you can identify the images in the backdrop that create a dreamlike disposition. 
