Out of the exchanges seen today, my favorite was that between Chrissy and Charley. After seeing everyone’s art on the first day, I gained the feeling that both students enjoying doing “alternative processes”, they just have very varying interests within the term. Knowing Chrissy enjoys doing dark room printing and that Charley enjoys setting stages and printing digitally, I was looking forward to seeing their technical alterations.
Having talked to Chrissy while she was in the process, I knew that she was having difficulties choosing a direction. She managed to create great tension with the addition of high saturated coloring. This seemed additionally interesting, considering that the file was already ominous, due to its softer tones. By adding color to selected sections of the image, she was able to create distinct fore, middle, and backgrounds.
The negative given to Charley had been one I had seen before and always thought to be a very strong print. This particular image of Chrissy’s has always felt very emotional and tense, showing some sort of anxiety and distress in the subject. The way that Charley interpreted this image was incredible, not only for the way in which he used it but the connecting message he made to the original print. If Chrissy’s image is a moment of death, than Charley’s image is the murders recollection of the death of the subject in that negative. It may be that I have been watching too much SVU, but it feels like the two prints interact with one another. What changed my interpretation even more was the information that the ominous figure in the remake is not a person but a Ken doll, and he is not holding a knife, but just shot himself through the head. Although this is interesting to me, I still enjoy that it is open to interpretation.
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