Hello ladies!
I wanted to show you an
example of some artwork that incorporates photographic images into a
mixed media artwork and who better to use than my own mother's work!
These are some mixed media images that she made recently about personal
mapping and histories and identity. For many of them she used old family
portraits or photos of herself as a child and blended them into paint
and other textures etc. Here is part of her artist statement for this
body of work. I thought these would be good for you to see because they
are about personal mapping, like our map of Ware project and show a
really beautiful way of using photographs in a collage form.
Eileen Rotty's Statement...
"Each
piece of art that I make is a thread in the tapestry that defines me; a
tapestry composed of memories, moments and experiences that somehow
demonstrate my personal history. It is this history that has shaped me
as an artist and continues to provide a wellspring of material and
subject matter that I need to produce art. It's a way to tell a story,
to explain the unexplainable and to make sense of the incongruous".
What do you think about them? Do you think each one
tells the whole story or a part of a story? What do you think about they
way text and symbols are used along with images and paint within the
same canvas? Does this give you any ideas for materials you can use in
your own mapping project?
