I used the photos I took of the patterns in the sand that the water had made and used tracing paper to copy the lines I saw. With this in mind, I was also thinking about the word camouflage. I experimented more with line and color as well as negative space. The images I captured of the sand are very intriguing because of their sense of depth. The way the sand was transformed will never be transformed again in the same way.
is there a way to relate these / this idea to the face?
ReplyDeleteand to the impermanence, changeableness, of identity, always in flux?
superimposition?
like the play of light on a face, somehow suggesting subtle (or not so subtle, but rather dramatic) changes in the feelings within?
there's a practice of painting with sand, too...
ReplyDeletenot permanent.
I remember children's art/craft kits, with colored sand.
almost a kind of paint-by-numbers concept.
and of course there are Buddhist sand mandalas — not that you should be making mandalas!
and then, also temporary, there's also writing with water !