Abigail carefully creates collages by combining pages from old books, atlases, encyclopaedia's and travel journals together, usually of urban and sometimes rural scenes. Abigail cleverly selects photos that have been taken from different angles, at different times and printed in different places but that capture the same thing. She then builds her photo collages, often by positioning a black and white monochrome photograph as a base layer then adds a coloured photograph on top to contrast. In a geometric like pattern Abigail cuts and folds the photos to create the illusion of looking through one photo into another, that becomes three-dimensional collage.
Abigail's work is unlike any photographic work I have ever seen and I love the intriguing qualities created by the layers, angles and patterns created in her work, reminiscent of origami sculptures. I love how the precise cut layers to not cover the entire photograph, just spread at random angles to create more geometric lines and patterns.
Abigail's work is unlike any photographic work I have ever seen and I love the intriguing qualities created by the layers, angles and patterns created in her work, reminiscent of origami sculptures. I love how the precise cut layers to not cover the entire photograph, just spread at random angles to create more geometric lines and patterns.
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Abigail Reynold's technique of creating her art pieces:
“I collect second hand tourist guides. Within the century of printed photographs that they contain, I search for plates that have been printed at similar scale, taken from a similar view point. When I find a near match between book plates, I cut and fold the pages into a new single surface. The dates written on each work give the publication dates of the books I have used. Whichever has been used as the ‘base’ image is listed first. The patterns I use to cut the two book pages into one single surface are such that all of both sheets of paper are preserved. If you were to fold all the flaps in or out, the entirety of each image will be seen. The act of folding one image into the other pushes them out into three dimensions in a bulging time ruffle.” |
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My responses for Abigail Reynolds was one of the most successful experiments that I think have worked well, the meaning behind it is about how have manufactured structures changed over time. I have tried to show this through photography by trying to show the new building (in colour) whilst the old building (in black and white) is being revealed in a way that it looks like it been torn out. By simply putting the black and white effect and playing around with the exposure and contrast it has made the mage look like it was taken a hundred years ago.
I experimented with my work further by taking a picture of it and using Photoshop to duplicate it many times and connect them to create a shape. the above image looks like its been bent or folded and you can now see the image from a different perspective. It has also transformed it into almost a different structure.