Leading on from expanding my own photographs using quite heavy editing processes, I wanted to begin creating photomontages in a similar style. These two pieces have been blended together using a number of different images I had taken during a visit to the Peak District. I feel that they both make an inadvertent reference David Hockney’s Pearblossom Highway but in a way this pays off as it creates some genuinely interesting imagery to examine with our eyes. I feel that this combination of natural beauty and the strange digital construct creates a uncanny atmosphere. The broken horizon’s are quite distracting, and I feel that if I were to work on the images some more I could mould them into to becoming fairly seamless.
When using these heavy disruptive methods it pays to be quite subtle and patient and let the images being to evolve with the help of a bit of intervention. Again posting these images online doesn't do justice just because amassing so many images together creates so much detail. I would love to be able to show these images on a large scale and I feel that its a bit of a shame that they are just going to land up a as progressional work during the project. Despite this it does give me confidence to continue to develop this practice and being to find a solid path for this project to develop.
