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What strategies from Rauschenberg’s work have you played with in your piece?
For this project I used quite a few Rauschenberg techniques. I used staining, repetition and sequencing. I used staining to give my peice an old and worn out look. I stained it with coffee. I used repetition only for two pictures which were the ones, in which there was a lot of memories attached therefore I want to live back those memories. In this piece I used sequencing to depict the movement in time. Life age wise development.
List several visual strategies to convey a sense of memory and the past that you have utilized in your project?
For this project I have used pictures mainly, to depict memories, but except that I have used staining, repetition and sequencing which was inspired by Rauschenberg. I divided the piece into three parts or grids. The small black grid in the center shows the dark time in India because of the 26 November 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Rest two parts show the growth in my life. my love for animals since childhood can easily been seen. I have a series of pictures in which I am wearing a (safa) a type of indian turban. These pictures I have put in a way that they depict the time which has passed till now.
What is one idea or take away that you gained from reading “The Flatbed Picture Plane”?
I don’t think there is any single thing I learnt from this reading because every thing was so helpful and interesting that it is difficult to point out only one point. I really liked the way Rauschenberg experimented various methods which today we try to revive. I was really touched when I read that once Rauschenberg dripped paint on the flat canvas/paper and then he lifted it up and said that I want to let the paint go where ever it wants to go. Secondly, the fact that there was so much depth and three dimensional touch to each piece and the feel of the whole piece changes.
