Week 5: Scale, Repetition and Deconstruction

Messing up the picture with the picture 

Week 5

On the fifth week, we were discussing about Dada, the famous artist that used red borders in the picture, messed up pictures with different kinds of "things" that didn't really make any sense. Using different fonts and messing up with straight lines and colors. That's what we call art.

On the tutorial we are using 3 found images. First image we should use for scaling which means that we have the picture in different sizes and we put them in smaller picture and figure out what effect it does:



I left the three heroes small on the bottom left corner and enlarged castle, mountains plants, mushrooms and a temple or house next to mountain. The meaning of the picture has changed: The heroes or adventurers are now smaller as they are in the giants' world that has dangerous plants and huge castle. The size of the castle is almost twice larger and it makes me think that adventurers are going to have a lot more trouble inside it than in the original size. Making plants bigger gave an impression of danger all around adventurers. There was no danger with plants before this. 

On the second picture, we have many same picture and I only had two but that was enough for me. We cut some elements of the picture and put it on the other picture and see how it changes the meaning of the picture.



First of all, I am surprised how the pieces blend in so well. I could almost bet that someone thinks this is original picture if they just looked at it fast. Things that I have doubled:
- panda looking at the building
- three little pandas playing
- old panda on the right side
- part of tree
- part of building
- panda looking towards us

The effect of panda looking at the building or the scenario changed from being alone to being together looking at the building. The loneliness disappeared.

Adding little pandas and old panda added more population in the picture.

I added the part of the tree because it was broken in the original picture. Now it seems lively for many decades.

Adding more height of the building gives more living space for pandas and the knowledge to build higher buildings.

Panda looking towards us is placed on top of left building and it gives the feeling of being a scout or guardian of this place.

Overall, the picture's meaning changed and gave more vibes of familiarity. More population and active life.

On the third picture, we had to take out some elements of the picture and deconstruct it to different place in the picture. Before I started to do so I thought about my picture elements and different things to take off. Also how much it would change the image. But I didn't think a lot and started doing it because we were running out of time. We have to do scaling twice, so this generates two images.


The picture is really messed up from the original one but at the same time it is quite artistic in my opinion. I cut the bridge and put it bottom so the helix bridge stands on it. I cut the water and air element off the picture and now it seems to hover in the air. Some part of the bridge is put to right side and gives a messy feeling. Water element is put on top of the picture and gives a feeling of that something is wrong. I have also cut parts of the helix bridge to make it not like helix.


On this picture I have cut even more than some elements. I cut the buildings and the pillars that helix bridge was standing on. After that I have put it upside down. Giving the non-gravity effect and the feeling of something is wrong. When I placed the parts then I wanted to have darker contrast to be on bottom right side and lighter on opposite up and left side. The buildings are on the bridge which is upside down and not straight makes me think that the bridge could be designed to have some buildings on top of it.

Helix bridge on top of another bridge and road to water. Also, some parts of bridge has gone missing. Cutting elements and placing it in different places makes the picture completely different and hard to understand.

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