Monday, 6 May 2013

Photographing origami around MSA

As suggested by Mark and Hannah, I went around the school of art with my origami pieces taking photographs. I selected the ones that were coloured to match a particular feature or echoed a specific pattern seen in the school of art, and captured them in that location.

The colours used were fairly muted, and so to add interest I tried to capture the origami blocks from different angles and using different scales. These are a small selection that have had small lighting adjustments and have been cropped for compositional purposes.

the dark base helps to ground this grouping

the contrast between the paper and the sofa makes this image bold

an illusion; the origami is lying on the seat of the sofa, but when the image is rotated they appear to levitate, which is a more interesting way to present them

huddled together the origami colours blend with the statue and the 5 pieces mirror the 5 toes

the boxes' 'ears' were inspired by these arches, so it was important to line them up on their sides to demonstrate this

using the 'ears' the boxes were hung in the gaps of this grill, in the same arrangement as the cross shapes

this photo was carefully composed, the colour balance works well and the boxes aren't the only focus point

a similar arrangement as above, with the boxes mirroring the vertical design of the tiles and matching colour-wise

a simple tower was difficult to balance because of the paper's flaws and folds

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