Collage Section II: Transparency

These two images represent the second iteration of the collage section of transparency.  I used different techniques of scanning in water and the manipulating it the way I wanted to.  The two sections are not so close to the term transparency anymore than any other word on the vocabulary list.  These two images can very easily represent numerous different terms and are starting to take on a spatial context as well.

Collage Section: Transparency

This image represents an abstract section through the transparency collages of water.  If you cut through water or a wave you would often represent that section with a ground plane and the water level represented in one way or another.  However, with this section I am cutting through water and showing the actual water droplets that you would only see on a very small scale.  The void that the images create and the texture of the background lack a scale and depending on the viewer, can be depicted in many different ways.

Collage II: Transparency

This is the second iteration of my previous transparency collage.  With this collage I used water in a different context than previously.  By adding the grid like structure to the picture there is also some sense of scale to the image which the previous collage lacked.  This collage is starting to steer away from the transparency vocabulary and is starting to represent scale and proportion more.

Collage: Transparency

For this collage I wanted to show the different characteristics that a transparent object can have.  For this specific example I chose water.  Water, on its own is very transparent such as a in clear glass or in your hands.  However, when water is surrounded by other objects it seems to lose its transparent characteristic and begins to reflect its surroundings.  A body of water, whether the ocean, a lake, a river or any other body of water, reflects everything around it and from afar doesn't seem transparent but instead can resemble a giant mirror.  The transparency of water depends on what its surrounded by and doesn't always seem transparent.


Transparency Collage II