{"id":2213,"date":"2015-02-19T04:35:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T04:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2020-04-15T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:23:28","slug":"self-portrait-a-map-of-places-i-might-have-left-a-lot-of-hair-not-including-bathrooms-and-barbershops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait \u2014 A Map of Places I Might have Left a Lot of Hair (Not Including Bathrooms and Barbershops)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Preliminary photo and painting (sketches):<\/p>\n

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Sign system:<\/p>\n

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Connection system:<\/p>\n

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surface:<\/p>\n

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The artists and works that influenced me the most were: Josh Dorman\u2019s 2008 piece, \u201cFour Fleurs\u201d, Liza Phillips works \u201cInlet\u201d and “Flood plain”, both from 2003 and, Mariele Neudeckers\u2019s 1998 installation \u201cUnrecallable Now\u201d. Also, though I did not go into the project thinking about Tamara Kostianovsky it seems that perhaps I drew from her as well. She made a map of the United States using her hair that I remember being very impressed by.<\/p>\n

AFTER PRINTING THOUGHTS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

I did not repost as I did not make many changes to my map. Here is a photo of what it looked like prior to critique:<\/p>\n

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I removed the black boxes because they took away from the translucent free flowing quality that I had created with the rest of the map. I like that though the map has a narrative it dose not have one central point and I realized after critique that the boxes were demanding to much attention. Initially I included them to block out the bathrooms in the apartment. However in my final map I found a way to work around the space by not being quite so literal. In the map I printed I replaced the black rectangles with a photo of a lake (overlaying the bathtub) I spent a good deal time in, and a showroom toilet (over the real toilet) that I was obsessed with when I briefly worked at the Poop Museum in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Over all I feel satisfied with the final product. I am so thrilled that we were able to print our maps out this big! It was amazing to see everyones all together. I was nervous about how mine would look without the weird depth and glassy screen of the computer but I do not feel that, in this regard, printing it add or took much away. What did change drastically in printing was the size of the hair, I had not given much thought to scale when working on my map. After seeing the 40×40 print I wondered if maybe I should have layered more small images of hair rather than stretching and bending several large images. As the large clumps might not immediately\u00a0read has hair, given their size. I was worried they would appear to be burns or scratch marks, I put a little note next to my map with the title in the hope that it would help to point the viewer in my intended direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Preliminary photo and painting (sketches): Sign system: Connection system: surface: The artists and works that influenced me the most were: Josh Dorman\u2019s 2008 piece, \u201cFour Fleurs\u201d, Liza Phillips works \u201cInlet\u201d and “Flood plain”, both from 2003 and, Mariele Neudeckers\u2019s 1998…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":2675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-invisible","tag-self-portrait","wpcat-128-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13568,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/13568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}