Process

Object # 1

The photogram represents a unique form requiring only the action of light and object on image, by placing objects directly onto the surface of the scanner, which is named flatbed. When I started experimenting with my scanner, I didn’t have any sage advice about creating scan art, but I did with my senses. Object #1,I didn’t have an inspiration for this at the first, I simply picked up a simple object, which that was merely interesting and put in to different shape, and then I scanned it. Its beauty showed once it was scanned. So I decided to scan it some more and see if I could capture a more interesting image from this object. This piece is very successful as its different and very eye catching, the soft edges, which make the object blend into the background, its just pieces of cello tape. I didn’t have any artist inspiration for the beginning of this technique, but this piece has inspired me to pick out more objects that at first don’t seem interesting, because once they are scanned and sometimes become much more interesting and beautiful than what they first were. 

below are my photograms experiments from 2010

I created photograms in darkroom at the end of 2010, which is a traditional photography technique without the use of a negative or camera. Its made by involves placing objects directly on the top of light sensitive paper and then exposing it to light in darkroom. Henry Fox Talbot produced photograms in the 1830s. Over time, this technique was adopted by other artists and improved over century, diverging from photography in the 1950s as a one the unique medium. Man Ray was one the pioneers of photograms. In 2012 I began to produce digital photograms using a scanner instead of an enlarger.