I’m not sure when I discovered how fun it was to layer photos, especially photos taken years apart with content that looks completely unrelated.
Last week I posted my image that combines an image from a cemetery very close to the birthplace of W.E.B. DuBois overlaid with a screen window from the hospital building at Weedpatch, the setting for John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.
This week, I did a photo transfer of a layered photo: a self portrait of me, crying, from my soul-grief series from 2007. The layered photo is me, writing, in 2012 at the Mountain View cemetery in Oakland, California, on the steps of a mausoleum there. Somehow these two photos painted a picture for me the two separate photos didn’t say on their own.
Broken: Mixed Media on Wood Board by Julie Jordan Scott
I had a painted piece of salvaged scrap wood that begged to be used in art, so I painted a layer of black, white and gray acrylic paint. I transferred the photo collage directly onto the wood. I appreciate the slight tear in one section. The imperfections spoke out, reminding me of the perfection of imperfection and brokenness.
I bought some dishes at a thrift store with the sole intention of breaking them and using them as another dimension of this piece, another monument to brokenness, literally. I used the mirror I broke as a reflection of the brokenness in everyone. Each person in the world shares a sense of brokenness which we rarely recognize in one another.
I know I often think I am the only one who is broken, everyone else has it perfectly together, right?
There is more, too, which the piece is speaking to me. Perhaps I’ll write more about it here.
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