Week 3

A breakthrough!  Both in inspiration and ability.

I visited the Andy Warhol Ai Weiwei exhibition this week at the NGV.  I've been a fan of Andy Warhol for many years and can see how some of his work could be created digitally if he was still alive and creating today.

One of my favourite pictures in the exhibition is one of Elizabeth Taylor.

Liz Taylor by Andy Warhol at NGV.  My own photo.

The works were silk screened onto fabric and up close you can see the weave of the textile but the image loses none of it's appeal when you view it on a computer screen and you can no longer see that detail.  The pictures appeal under two of the topics that most interest me for my own work, The Loss of the Aura and Is this Me?  While these aren't self portraits the idea of doing a self portrait in this style is appealing.  

I found inspiration inside the classroom too.  After struggling through the exercises the first week using photoshop it clicked for me this week and I could trace the picture....success!