Ink Collage
The works that I am making now are based on a technique that I call "ink collage". The concept is to use a drawing or a series of drawings as wire frames made up of the dark lines in the drawing. These are then laid on top of one another to form an irregular mosaic of openings, like laying a bunch of wire coat hangers on top of one another and looking through to a colored carpet underneath. Through these openings, the colors from an underlying image are digitally "squeezed" so that you get both the original color image as it is pushed through the mosaic-like openings. You can create many layers of meaning by selecting and arranging the drawings, and their intersection and adjusting the underlying image. The result is a more detailed description of the object in the picture since it incorporates all the line drawings into one layered image.
All of this is done through computer software. The easiest way for me to explore these ideas (and the way that I have developed this technique) is by gathering images that I think will enhance the overall visual idea and then processing them through the programs that I have written. The result is a digital print.
Blake Hurt,
August 2005,
Charlottesville, Virginia.
The works that I am making now are based on a technique that I call "ink collage". The concept is to use a drawing or a series of drawings as wire frames made up of the dark lines in the drawing. These are then laid on top of one another to form an irregular mosaic of openings, like laying a bunch of wire coat hangers on top of one another and looking through to a colored carpet underneath. Through these openings, the colors from an underlying image are digitally "squeezed" so that you get both the original color image as it is pushed through the mosaic-like openings. You can create many layers of meaning by selecting and arranging the drawings, and their intersection and adjusting the underlying image. The result is a more detailed description of the object in the picture since it incorporates all the line drawings into one layered image.
All of this is done through computer software. The easiest way for me to explore these ideas (and the way that I have developed this technique) is by gathering images that I think will enhance the overall visual idea and then processing them through the programs that I have written. The result is a digital print.
Blake Hurt,
August 2005,
Charlottesville, Virginia.