Three Images Constructed for this Module
Our task for this module was to create three related images - one in
Photoshop, one in a 3-D program and one in Painter.
When I began work on
this module, I was fascinated by the thought that one could use editing packages
to apply desconstructuralist ideas to images. As a starting point, I took the
idea that lay behind T.S.Eliot's The Wasteland, summed
up in the line: These fragments I have shored againt my ruin. Words
from this quote appear in all three images I created.
The background to the
Photoshop image was a Maxfield Parrish painting, chosen simply because I like
Maxfield Parrish and it also gave me the opportunity, by positioning my objects
in a lake, to play with relections and ripples. There is also a Mackintosh
table - an in-joke; the image was created on a Mac. The frame for the painting
on this table is actually taken from the Arnolfini Bethrothal, one of
the first paintings of the Northern Renaissance, famed for its use of
perspective. However, it no longer reflects a bethrothal. Instead it contains
a distorted image of Magritte's La Voile.
Feel free to make what you
can of these!
By the way, the windows in the Painter image are from Chartres
Cathedral, although the stained glass they contain has, unsurprisingly, been
changed ...
These
fragments I have shored against my ruin
Image created in Photoshop 3
I
have my ruin ...
Image created in Swivel 3D
These
fragments shored against ...
Image created in Painter