The Poor Image - Project #1

The Poor Image - Project #1 / Part 2

For the final for my project on the "poor image," I decided to try another process that still uses the "rollage" technique, except I did it backwards this time.

"What do you mean by backwards?"

 

By "backwards," I mean I took four images of a wiener dog and turned it into one… yes, you heard that right. 

This is gonna be a bit difficult to explain, so bear with me through the process. In Google Docs, through a series of flipping, mirroring and rotating, I manipulated four images of the same wiener dog in my first post to create something similar to a mandala. I then printed that image out. cut it vertically into seventeen 1 cm strips and rearranged them to create a new, distorted image. After scanning that image, I repeated the process horizontally, cutting them it into seventeen 1 cm strips again and rearranging them into one final image.

At first, you may think it doesn't look like the original image, which it's not supposed to, but the more you look, the more the original image starts to appear before your eyes. It has now become an abstract image of a wiener dog made from four images of that same wiener dog, still touching on Steyerl's idea that "the poor image tends towards abstraction: it is a visual idea in its very becoming." again, looking at how the images change through repetition, formation and circulation.