Excerpts from the DemiFace Sequence

SHOWING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCEPT

This sequence came about as the result of a whim - cutting a picture in half and putting half of it on another picture. The rules I developed for this sequence were:

Remove all conscious thought or creative effort from the process

Work as rapidly as possible

Simplify

Here is seen the earliest stage of the sequence, using black and grey markers with white pencil on brown sketch paper, sized 6"x9".

It soon became clear that the source images were too large, resulting in excessive detail, and that the process of creating them required too many decisions. Smaller source images were formed using a uniform process requiring no creative effort, with the only decisions being snap judgements as to the suitability of any one image. It was only necessary then to reduce the amount of detail to push the image to the limit of recognizability.

The next group shows the development from the initial sketch form to the final technique of single and multiple images in marker and white pencil on a background of colored ink on watercolor paper, sized 5.5"x7.5" and 6"x8".

At this point it was clear that the sequence had developed beyond the sketch stage and could be signed and dated formally as finished works.

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