BFA 'Windows and Doors' Series

Periodically I will be posting works from my BFA series 'Windows and Doors'. This body of work is dealing with memory. The windows and doors being a medium through which one can draw upon their memories. As I post more works from this series I will include my artist statement for the body of work. This piece 'Reflection' was created through Medium format film and digital photography merged together in Photoshop with the use of my layering process. I feel that the layers of Photoshop can be a simile of the layers of memory.

Photos and Photoshop by Emily Jeanne

Tanya

I love the idea of beauty and that beauty comes in many forms and has many facets. From those concepts and ideas I created this image of Tanya.
Photo by Emily Jeanne

Self portrait with doll

I have always felt an affinity for dolls. I have collected them over the years and am fascinated by the perfect porcelain faces staring back at me. In this shot I turned myself into a living doll with makeup and Photoshop to create a porcelain doll-like facade.

Here is a glimpse at my photoshop process

Photos by Emily Jeanne


Ophelia

This is my take on Shakespeare's Ophelia. She is a moving and haunting figure and I wanted to create something equality haunting in my imagery. The Small picture is the before and after pictures (you can click on the picture to see the detail). In the final image I took out most the color of her skin (to portray a lifeless look) and I took out distracting details so the viewer can focus on the figure and her story. Photo by Emily Jeanne

"[She] Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;

And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:

Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;

As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and indued

Unto that element: but long it could not be

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,

Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay

To muddy death".

- Shakespeare

J. Andrew Livingston

These pictures are work that I did for a musican for his press photo and CD cover. The photoshopped CD cover used about 11 different layers giving it a Hockney type effect. This was a fun collaboration and a great opportunity to do something different.


This is an animated gif showing a glimpse of my layering process.

Photos and Photoshop by Emily Jeanne

Decomposition of All Things

These images are a series of photos that I did relating to the idea of decomposition. In our lives people come in and out. Our old friends and selves change and fall away. Memories fade and we are left with small snatches of the past slowly decomposing.These illustrations were created using multiple layers of photoshop. Using Holga, Polariod, and digital photographic images. and blended together to create the feeling of decomposing memories.


photography by Emily Jeanne