John Stezaker Exhibition @ Whitechapel Gallery

Some drawings I did at the Natural History Museum:

messing about, developing shapes.

Using photos I took at the NHM of animals and magazine images of people, I created photo-collages inspired by John Stezaker's work. I tried to work images of inanimate objects in with the animal/human collages but there's so much imagery to use with animals alone. The majority of the animal imagery is more interesting texturally and visually than images I've gathered of contrasting inanimate objects such as buildings and furniture.

I developed some of my photo-collages into patterns and then used ink to re-create the Rorshach ink blot tests.

PT2

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM PT1

The rest of the book

(sorry for bad photobooth quality!)

Rorshach

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I'm thinking about experimenting with the Rorschach inkblot test, inspired by Cindy Sherman's exhibition and the secondary image collaging I was experimenting with:

which stemmed from the image on the left (hooded figure from a magazine, parrot profile silhouette cut in and multiplied):

I'm not sure how it would link back to my concept, although I guess I could link it into cloning and when you combine things (people/animals/objects) they end up distorted. Or even combined with a clone of themselves (mirrored image) it will look deformed. I'll get a load of drawings done, and using them or photos I've taken/will take to then mirror.

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