progress

Piece is progressing...... Pretty nicely (?) Design decision: what to do about my friend's passed out body. Her face is mostly obscured; it will be difficult to convey it well. My first idea is to source her head from another photo. Another idea is to just leave off her head and keep her body as a headless corpse... I could combine option one and two and create a decapitated head for her. I am currently interested in chopping this girl to bits. I do like a touch of the grotesque.

The more I work on this project, the more I feel a constant mental reference to the English artist Duggie Fields. While Fields primarily works in compositions consisting of incredibly jagged, flat planes of color, I feel his influence in surreal imagery, an almost computerized pop look,  reminiscent of the first days of computer art, and a flattening of 3/D planes. Of course, the last factor is the one most essential for this assignment, even though the flattening doesn't create a tension between the third and second dimensions as much as it places figures and objects in an ambiguous space. Again, it's like a computer simulation, but I don't think I want to break down such distinctions in such a manner. However, I do suggest his website, http://www.duggiefields.com/ for possible influence. Plus, he walked for Comme Des Garcons Homme, and one of his buttons were featured in the video for American Boy. So that's something too.