'Growing Pains' is the title of my current project, 'documenting' a transitional phase, feeling lost and without an identity, being a stranger to others and becoming one to yourself. It is about visually representing the emotional pain of growing up and growing out of who you used to be and growing into someone else.
I don't have the words to describe it, so here are my growing pains.
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This is an image idea that kept me awake at night, so I made a video about the experience making it. Looking at it now, I'm not hugely happy with the outcome of this shoot, but I'm proud that I went back to the idea and tried again, and that I will probably try a few more times after this.
I took my photos in my regular 'studio' set up, colour adjusted and blemish fixed and did any other little adjustments in photoshop, then literally just printed them off with a sky background and some butterfly PNGs and got to work. I scanned the collages back into Photoshop, and added the curve layer and oil paint texture that I use in all of my recent works to add to the Renaissance painting inspiration. Aether was a primordial god of light and the god of the sky, which the ancient Greeks considered to be 'blue ether' that represented heaven. I originally saw the word 'aether' in reference to a Minecraft mod, but I liked it enough to do some research and create an airy wings and butterfly and 'heavenly' series inspired by it.
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