My idea was to use a plant that had stalks. I experimented with a variety of copying techniques including putting stalks below a previous photocopied piece, cutting the photocopies up and pasting them onto a more basic photocopy, picking up the sheet of paper at parts, moving stalks along the screen and different contrasts. In the end I was drawn to a more simplistic repetition approach. I photocopied a basic composition, then added stalks underneath it and photocopied it again. I repeated this with the new photocopy and more stalks a number of times. It turned up looking like a forest because the stalks had a bark or tree like looking. I think what added too it was the sense of depth because the older generation copies appear darker and more contrasty, while the newer ones were lighter and more vivid/clear. It ended up creating a very nice, visually appealing effect, while some of hte other techniques looked too dark or had too much contrast and it was impossible to determine the shapes. Also the cut and pasted ones looked strange and out of place. |
