The  First  Word  By  Lola  Osunneye  

The  purpose  of  this  assignment  is  to:  •  Explore  ideas  in  Fine  Art  through  making    •  Generate  crea@ve  and  imagina@ve  ideas  through  materials  and  process  led  approach  

The  brief  introduced  a  set  of  words  in  which  I  chose    the  word  ‘Submerge’  due  to  the  fact  that  I  thought  it’ll  be  interes@ng  to  work  with  water.    

Brief  

SUBMERGE  Sink    

Drown  

Flood  

Dive  

beneath  Water  

Hidden  plants  

Sea  creatures  

Submarines    

Rocks      

Immersion  in  liquid  

Ink    

Fizzy  water    

Oil  

Different  colours    

Materials   Glass  

MY  IDEA  My  direc@on  is  to  extend  my  book  project  and  cut  into  books  using  images  of  people  and  then  placing  it  in  water  with  different  substances  or  rather  photographing  the  books  and  then  edi@ng  them  on  Photoshop  to  look  submerged.    

Alban  Grosdidier  ARTIST  RESEARCH  

This  photographer  was  working  on  a  project  called  “Drowning”  using  water  inside  the  portraits,  emphasizing  the  act  of  drowning  and  showing  by  example  how  big  city  life  can  tear  someone  down  that  they  feel  they  are  suffoca@ng  in  life.  Drowning    is  a  metaphor  and  the  enemy  of  the  feeling  of  submersion  that  one  can  have  living  in  a  big  city.  The  black  and  white  photography  adds  more  effect  as  it  displays  beau@ful  reflec@ons.    

Laurence  Demaison  Her  work  is  mainly  black  and  white  self-­‐portraits  from  1993  to  2009  with  gestures  that  bring  to  mind  near  death  experiences  or  Francesca  Woodman's  work.    Without  any  digital  tricks  she  plays  around  with  film  photography  and  creates  amazing  photos.  She  takes  advantage  of  what  the  camera  sees,    no  par@cular  manipula@on  intervenes  beyond  the  shot,  with  mul@ple  reflec@ons,  repe@@ons,  overlapping  and  posi@oning  which  become  smudges  of  light  in  darkness.  The  photographer  uses  analog  techniques  for  the  photography  itself,  development  and  prin@ng.      

ARTIST  RESEARCH  

Nigel  Tomm  ARTIST  RESEARCH  

Nigel  Tomm  is  a  unique  ar@sts  because  usually  when  ar@sts  crumple  up  their  art  work,  it’s  because  they  are  not  pleased  with  and  throw  it  away.  This  photographer  is  completely  content  with  his  scrunched-­‐up  work,  manipula@ng  each  of  his  pieces  on  purpose  and  crea@ng  distorted  images.    

Book  One  

These  are  images  of  my  first  book  in  which  hasn’t  been  submerged  yet  but  an  original.  I  took  interest  in  an  architecture  book  which  had  a  colour  collage  page  and  decided  to  cut  them  and  flip  them  up  to  add  a  3D  effect.    

When  you  turn  the  page  

It  was  interes@ng  that  when  I  turned  the  page,  the  square  shapes  seemed  like  windows.  The  fact  that  it  slightly  looked  like  a  building  was  pleasing  seeing  as  I  was  cu_ng  into  an  architecture  book.    

EXPERIMENTING  

The  ini@al  idea  of  working  with  this  book  was  an  experiment  before  I  began  using  books  with  images  of  people.  These  images  show  when  I  placed  the  actual  book  into  water.  The  result  wasn’t  what  I  wanted  so  decided  to  print  out  the  images  instead  and  then  photograph  them  again.    

EXPERIMENTING  WITH  PHOTOCOPIER  PAPER  

I  decided  to  print  out  one  of  the  pictures  I  took  of  my  book  and  experiment  of  how  it  would  look  when  placed  in  to  water,  especially  with  photocopy  paper.  I  got  a  tray  and  used  tap  water  to  fill  it,  I  then  put  some  hand  soap  in  a  cup  with  water  to  create  the  bubbles  at  that  point  I  poured  it  into  the  tray,  placing  the  image  aberwards.    I  believe  the  water  made  it  look  like  cinema/  stadium  seats.      

On  this  page,  I  edited  the  pictures  so  they  are  black  and  whit  to  have  rela@on  to  my  ar@st  Laurence  Demaison.  It  was  inspira@on  from  her  work  that  brought  me  to  add  bubbles  to  my  work.  I  think  the  water  and  shadows  allows  the  image  to  appear  more  3D.  The  black  and  white  effect  displays  submerges    with  the  white,  black  and  grey  sec@ons;  its  as  if  the  top  part  is  shoo@ng  out  while  the  rest  sinks  in  as  it  appears  smaller  towards  the  end.  

EXPERIMENTING  WITH  INK  

The  outcomes  displayed  similari@es  to  Nigel  Tomm’s  work  as  placing  the  photocopied  sheet    in  the  water  allowed  the  paper  to  crease  up  and  with  it  soaked  in  the  water  for  a  while  it  began  to  rip  which  created  an  interes@ng  effect.  

This  is  an  image  of  the  photocopied  paper  taken  out  of  the  water.    

Book  Two  

I  decided  to  cut  into  this  book  cover  because  I  took  interest  in  the  image  of  a  woman  underwater  which  has  a  clear  rela@on  to  submerge,  cu_ng  into  it  made  it  look  more  3D  as  if  she's  really  falling  deep  

OUTCOME  

To  include  a  different  

approach  I  decided  to  work  with  Photoshop  and  secondary  

images.  I  researched  into  water  textures  

and  downloaded  what  one  I  

wanted  to  use.    

I  did  so  by  placing  the  image  of  the  water  onto  my  original  photo  and  looked  at  ways  I  could  blend  the  two.  

I  believe  the  result  was  successful  as  it  does  look  as  if  the  image  was  underwater.  

Book  Three  

Thomas  Allen  Photography    

By  photographing  the  book  from  this  angle  ,  it  linked  to  Thomas  Allen’s  works,  also  with  the  image  popping  out  of  the  page  crea@ng  a  3D  effect  which  it  what  I  aimed  for.  

Book  Four  

This  image  was  edited  using  Photoshop  and  secondary  image  of  water  tex@les.  I  think  the  image  does  look  submerged  and  at  the  boeom  of  the  ocean.    

Con@nues  on  hep://lolasphotography.tumblr.com/Submerge