Practice Workshop III

My original intention for this workshop was to project my images on acetate and to have the participants recreate the combination of images. However both the overhead projectors were faulty and so I could not project the images.

I printed out each of my edits to a rough A5 size on acetate and asked the participants to select their favourite images. Instead of projecting these images overlapping each other, I asked the participants to use them as references.. The images would then be painted onto the paper by the participants by hand or with the utensils provided. It wasn't hard to see that the participants preferred to be much more physically involved as they mainly used their hands.

Immediately a few of the participants got involved with the paint and wiping it onto the paper with their hands.

They quickly began to cover half of the paper with a mixture of colours. 

It wasn't long before they began flicking and wiping paint onto each other. Some of the participants were a lot less confident in getting involved. 

The paper was thin and so with so much energy and the heaviness of the paint, the paper began to tear. 

A couple of the participants tried to save their work, but due to a lack of materials, failed.

 They moved onto blank parts of the paper and they too began to tear.

After 15 minutes their artwork was complete and I wasn't surprised to find another set of handprints having been created in a workshop on Identity.

After I tidied up I took another photo to see if another would happen to their artwork, seeing as it had already torn numerous times. It had continued to fall down. I have left the paper as it is shown here and will check back on it in the morning.