The moment when finally I have the time to show the stuff I made during my Easter holiday back in my home town. I believe, all of these works you're going to see are my personal best ones. It was a complete experimentation around my ideas and visions. At the end, the biggest source of my excitement was the thing, that my final visual outcome was made through my own experimentation.
However, I'm not going to throw all the pictures here just to look through without any explanation and background. As always, I'll try to give enough time for you to digest and enjoy my work.
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So the first work - "Emotional Friendly" is very unique for me and quite strong in it's meaning. There's quite a big process of experimentation and one small digital adjustment behind "the face" of the picture. Let me shortly go through each step for you.
After the main shoot (which was a series) I wanted to pick one or two shots and do something with them; somehow adjust, overlay or digitally enhance them. Soon enough, after staring at the pictures for ridiculously long time enough, I came up with the idea that I wanted to do a ridiculously long time ago. So, I picked the shot, made A4 size print of it and started to burn it.
From the start I wasn't sure about a few things. First of all, I made the print in black and white, which, at that time, seemed not to be the right choice. Secondly, I thought that I'll make nothing more than a big mess and lots of smoke in my room.
After my first tries burning the print, something started to come up and soon enough I had a complete vision I wanted to make. By burning the middle of the print, I realized that skull needs to disappear. The bright red, orange and excluded blue from the lighter flame suited perfectly for the black-and-white print.
Without over-burning the picture I did some final flares around the center and tried to
straighten the paper which became curly because of the heat. Accidentally I touched the the middle of the burned part of the print and saw my fingerprints on it. I realized that there's no need to wait, so I grabbed a camera and tried to re-capture it with as less reflection as possible. I knew that the scanner would simply destroy my print by making all kind of marks from the surface, so I needed to do my best this time on re-capturing all my work.
After some straightening and colour correction I had my final work on my screen. Well, at least I thought it was my final work, but... something was still missing. So, again, I started to play hide-and-seek with my mind until I found what I was looking for.
Because of the "devil" look and expression of the face I thought that the picture is simply too bright. And that was the point for me - I needed to darken it. But how? Suddenly, after inverting the colours I finally saw the end of the journey. The work was done.
Now you may be asking: why "Emotional Friendly"? All I can do is just to let you think and wonder, because I'm not going to talk about the right meaning of my work. All I can say is that most of the people on this world are too busy to think about death, destiny, addiction and something, what I call "devils". These are not a scary creatures with horns sticking from their heads that you can see only in the fiction now. These are something hidden deeply in you flesh and mind.
