Physical Experiment: Burning -

Physical Experiment: Burning - 

Original Image:

Final Image:

Tools -

I used:

Scissors

Matches

Influences -

Lucas Simoes

Christopher McKenney

Evaluation - 

The original photograph was captured within one of my photoshoots that was inspired by the "Self-Made Ghosts" series by Christopher McKenney and depicts a ghost figure in a foggy and eerie atmosphere. The original conniptions of the photographic outcome were the idea of the fine chord of life and the balance between life and death. It is also similar in its connotations to the physically manipulated painting experimentation in that I wanted the audience to understand the inferences to the anonymous ghost subject representing the people in photographs in family albums who we can no longer identify by name of relation to ourselves. The connotations of the original image were already strong and I did not want to change them only exaggerate them. As such, the narrative of this physical experiment was to distress the image like old photographs become over time in accidents as they age such as ripping or more drastically how some images are damaged or lost in fires, which allowed me to explore Lucas Simoes' technique, and emphasise the previously routed connotations of the photographs.