Friday, July 06, 2007

3rd image


This image as Aditya explained was inspired from a photograph taken to record an internal courtyard. It started with Aditya using the tools of perspective and bending them so as to construct an image that showed more of the courtyard, deforming it more than the photograph so as to enable details of not only the court but also the adjacent corridor spaces that abut it, stretching it a little more so as to represent the narrowness of the court, detailing it intensively to hint at multiple narratives contained within the built form. The pencil sketch used existing tools of drafting and detailing, but when overlaid with a concern to show more, got deformed into a fish eye image.
When Ranjit took over painting of the image, he imagined the image in terms of its light, and attempted to represent the light within the court and thereby represent the narrowness, the stale air, the dimly lit corridors, moisture in the air etc. But interestingly when he painted the image he painted it referring to a photograph and so the rendering of the image got influenced by photographic perception of light and not as seen by the human eye, which explains the over exposure at the top or a little out of focus at the bottom.
The asymmetrical sides, slight tilt of the built form and the clothes (in the extreme top left) hanging straight down are some of the planned errors that add to the overall image.

6 comments:

  1. I especially love the man int eh bottom right - the whole image has come out wonderfully

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  2. the man is actually looking up, but because of the deformation he lands up looking straight at you. :)

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  3. o thats true! - that really works because of the shoulder face angle - I mean you get the sense that he is looking up and you feel like you are looking at him on a lower floor or something!

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  4. i like post this one, esp he photography/sight connection.

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  5. where is the post u were talking about last week?

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