Author: Nita

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My final installation! I sourced my works from each stage and managed to put them together in a way that showed the progress and how each process I used developed into more coherent works.

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I decided to really focus and enforce the text to image idea in this final work, a culmination of all the subject matter, and source material. Things like the use of tape, use of colour, and collaging are all things I feel bring these very different types of pieces together to create a whole work, which I was really happy about because I only really expected that result from layering the texts.

This work is basically just putting together the subject matter and techniques from all of my previous other works. I focused a lot more on the idea of layering texts to create new images by processing the same writing multiple times on top of eachother but changing the rotation, size and colour.

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I brought back images like the Vailima bottles and hibiscus’ and used them as a primary source of colour within the works to create more contrast and layers. When scanning, I lightened these images to the highest setting to make a transparent effect, I wanted to be able to see the pictures scanned before, as well as smaller details like the rips and collaging in the paper

These works are a product of repetitive photocopying. I used alot of the same techniques I used prior such as collaging and scanning but focused alot on the pages from the Japanese magazine because of the look of the text, as it’s quite easy to manipulate in a way that makes it visually appealing to me. The different boldness and size of the lettering in the pages also interested me and added more depth to whatever works they were in.

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I also started to draw on top of images of people, heavily inspired by the works of Ellen Gallagher and her works using old African American magazines

I enjoyed this process alot because of the gel pens I used, the colours of them contrasting the B&W paper, but mostly the effect it had against matte paper and images because of the glitter in the pens.

All of the images layered and collaged in these works are from the magazine and it was helpful to gather so many different types of pictures of art from different styles (naked sculptures and manga drawings) and mediums and bring them together to create an entirely new work.

These works were made using a Japanese art magazine from the 90’s. I was interested in this source material alot because of the paper, text, and size because it’s fairly small (B6 I think). I began to rip apart the pages from it and freestyle a collage type installation, layering it and manipulating pages to create more dimensional and less flat

I began using text from a book of Samoan hymns. I became increasingly intrigued by how writing and lettering from two different languages looked once put together and decided to play around with that idea by painting Samoan lyrics onto papers from the magazine.

I’m happy with the works on this wall although it’s not very coherent because things like the masking tape, paper, and layering effect create a little bit of interconnectivity

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Today, I experimented more with photocopying and scanning with different types of paper. I also developed an interest in masking tape and the effect it had on images once they were printed onto it. Using different papers on top of others I was able to see the difference in quality, and could see how the images produced different outcomes on the same work

I began to use Mary as a motif within my work to juxtapose my other subjects matter like alcohol and nicotine, as both have been big parts of my upbringing. I enjoyed how this came out, primarily because of how her image started to rub off of the masking tape the more I moved and played with it.

I began to process my images through the photocopier multiple times, as well as sticking and collaging multiple images on top of a base to create a more textured final work. Different textures can be seen through the use of layered masking tape, normal printing paper, and printing paper from an old book I had which is more rough consistency.

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I developed an interest in text and processing it on top of texts sourced from different sources in order to create new images, and to make it unreadable.