Altered Landscapes
Part II
- New York City
Pictures
were originally taken in 1982. I was staying for a month by a friend in
Brooklyn and I used to go to Manhattan every day and then take snapshots
on the road. Never actually liked much the alluring views (which I also
took nevertheless) of Rockefeller Plaza or so but the scrabby-look and
hyperrealistic views instead.
In 1997, after 15 years those pictures had been taken, I got hold of those
slides again and decided to go through some kind of revision, processing
images electronically. Original material was just the starting point and
nothing more than that.
Digital
processing mainly consisted in:- Replication of small picture elements
with tiling technique
- Image destructuring done by hand with paint tablet
- 2-3 images overlap with different transparency modes done by working
with layers
Pictures
were then printed with inkjet printer in 60x80 cm. Size
Some pictures were placed on forex to gain more graphical appeal.