"Finger" Prints

    Over the weekend, I have managed to begin processing some prints from the previous photography research I did previously involving my hand, milk and water. I thought that as I am now approaching my experimental week, I should begin with something I have knowledge of being Photoshop. The production of these prints was actually rather entertaining and there were many other options I could have chosen to use. Nonetheless, I am really happy with how these prints turned out and I plan to produce a lot more. On top of this, I want to try experiment with these prints on the sowing machine to see what shapes and forms I can create and how they can inspire me for stand work, future prints, illustrations and much more. In addition to this, I wanted to add a bit of colour to my book considering that I have tried to keep my colour pallet very pale and minimal. The reasons I have chosen to use red and blue is fairly obvious and simplistic, this is due to the nervous system within the body and I wanted to relate the colours to the anatomy of our bodies including veins, nerve endings, bones and much more.

    Furthermore, I plan to expand on my choice of colours and see how I can relate them to my Final Major Project (FMP) theme of 'Living with Dementia'. Not only this, but I really liked the way how these prints are purely just my fingers and how they begin to disappear when you look at the print or even hardly notice that they are my fingers anymore, again relating back to dementia and how the patient begins to forget who they really are by loosing sight of themselves. Moreover, this could lead to choosing colours based on emotions, family connections, locations and much more. In addition, I plan to expand on my prints further and I want to make them more personal and this can be done by using people, photographs, articles and much more. I said previously,

           "the reason I added my own hand was to make it much more personal considering I don't actually know anyone with dementia, but it is my own fear seeing that I can loose myself without noticing, such as my hand above sinking into the murky water…"

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 (Prints produced by Myself)