Andy Hughes provided a live lecture this week, it was great and very encouraging to see his enthusiasm for his work and his passion for Climate Change Awareness and the bigger picture.
It was reassuring to hear that he often, if not always revisits image to add to them and develop them further, I am very similar in that it could take me a year or more to ‘finish’ an image and Im not even adding anything physically. I’ve often wondered if this is a sign of indecision or a weakness, hearing other artists, especially someone as accomplished at Andy also needs/likes to return to the works was something of a relief.
The work I felt a connection too instantly was from earlier in his career where he composites alternate images. Not just photographic though and I saw this as really liberating. My current method is very strict, photographic and based very much in reality of scale and perspective.
Here Andy uses Gyre Expedition data collected via 3-D and mapping applications along the coastline of Cornwall to create an image over a landscape, the circular framing is also very radical.
Although I thought I was actually being very experimental with my tableaus I can see Im far from it! Id never considered using non photographic means of image creation. Maybe However in the the next module I could find the time to experiment with alternate mediums possibly, certainly actual collage techniques.
I really like this means of compositing, using the tape and notes, so different to what I do yet also the same on many levels, my means of taping the images together is hidden, here is on full show and part of the work.
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Image taken from Andyhughes.net copyright of the artist.