Photography

For my photography project I was influenced by the woodcuts by Christiane Baumgartner whose work starts off from photography and video and are cut to look like a sequence from a video very similar to cctv this allowed me to push the concept from tabloids of the pictures taken of celebrites who are carrying out mundane tasks and who also might not be aware their photos are being taken.

Working on prints

These are two of my lithos that I've worked on top of one where I stitched into the print to play on the idea of the cuts on the face from the Black Dahlia and other where I used lipstick to add colour.

Litho bit more

So this first image is my sketch for litho. Sticking with the lipstick idea as a methopher for more serious or even violent news I created these lips with smudged lipstick. The Black Dahlia was cut from mouth to ears creating whats known as a glasgow smile. And these other pictures are my drawing on the stone and my first litho prints.

Little bit o Litho

At first seeing what the first groups lithos entailed I was hesitant about using the headlines and stories brief for this and thought I would have preffewred to change to stuctures and systems but after my standstill a couple of weeks ago I'm now on a roll and definatly obsessed with the whole idea of the Black Dahlia and cant wait to continue this idea.
The Black Dahlia murder was very grusome especially for its time but over time it has become over-dramatised in films and we jus start to look at it as entertainment and a subject to get obsessed over rather than the serious subject of news that it is and that is murder.

Film Noir emerging

Looking at my previous work such as this text based image a 50's noir stly started to appear and workin with two plates now I could create a story board of the girls lipstick breaking although it looks more like her lipstick was murdered. And also a white on black image of the lipstick seems very much like a bullet with gun powder resadue and also decided to experiment a little bit with the idea of blood instead of lipstick..... Looking at noir films made about murders I began to look at the Black Dahlia murder from 1947... I think I might be getting obsessed with this story.

Love when things go wrong... No really I do

Well today I learnt that your plate can open bite or bits of the plate than or gettin biten can fall onto your plate or that peoples plates may jus scarpe off your plate in the acid bath either way once it was printed ~ think I'm happier with the results than I would have been with just the lipstick. I mean look at those marks there is no way I would have thought about placing them there or be able to create them easily myself.

Now what???

After doing alot of colour prints of my girl and some text based ones I started to get bored of this I felt I got my point across and maybe it was a little bit too obvious. So now I am working on a new etching of this drawing of a broken lipstick.... because god forbid this giels favourite lipstick broke.