09-21-2003, 12:55 PM | #1 |
merely human
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new art from Trep: Untitled
Untitled is a recent series of images I'm working on. The images, captured with a digital camera, often border on the generic banality of formalistic photographic compositions - architecture, industry, downtown plazas, gas stations, car interiors. What I feel texturizes and charges them are the superimposed texts over a Guassian blur field within the images, transforming them into 'psychological moments' for me, as the texts are highly personal, some of them extracted from my diary and dealing with such issues as family, isolation, identity, depleted expectations, emptiness, and loss. And what I also found intriguing after starting this series is that it reminds me of current advertisements in the subway trains, on buses, and in magazines - a subversion of sorts, the idea of private pain, experiences, thoughts, and reflections 'oozing' out into the public sphere, an exposition of one individual's complexities through the graphic pimpings of 'remedies' to momentarily satisfy desires and alleviate social insecurities. I'd love some feedback, so feel free to comment.
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09-21-2003, 02:38 PM | #2 |
Tactlessly understated
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I am afraid to say anything because I may inadvertently insult you...
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09-21-2003, 06:36 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, good points. Like I said, I just started this series. Thankfully I saved them as working files I can go back and fiddle with over and over until I'm satisfied with them.
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09-22-2003, 05:15 AM | #4 |
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I've changed the fonts and decided to blur the images more for the text to stand out further.
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09-22-2003, 05:50 AM | #5 |
rare groove
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Definitely better.
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09-22-2003, 05:53 AM | #6 |
:P ^^^ at tamz
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Well, the main reason the text doesn't stand out for me is the obvious white-on-white. You could bevel, outline, or drop-shadow it, or something similar, but those would all come out pretty corny. My only suggestion would be to position the text over a fairly homogeneous piece of the picture. For example, I think a justified-width block (in that last font) that spanned the width of that front-most column on the right, and was a little bit above center would look nice. But I'm not putting any "art" into it -- just aesthetics . If the intention was to force the user to read it word by word (thus taking it in "osmotically," but not consciously), then I guess there's no reason to fix that.
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