I'm trying out some new pieces right now, and looking at shifting directions. It's doing photography, but more in an emotive vein, and incorporating my own poetry and text. There's a similar form out there called Haiga that is a combination of haiku and photographs or paintings. I'm a bit leery of dropping text on top of images as that could look like a giant Hallmark card, and am leaning toward a diptych presentation, either within a single matte or two separate pieces. Now the question that arises is this a true mixed media or does it still stay within photography?
As an aside, using separate frames leaves the possibility of selling one or the other instead of as a combined unit only.
Does anyone know of any artists that are doing this type of work?
Here's a link to a work in progress to show an example. The paper that the text is on is a hand made Indian bark fiber paper, and the photo is on conventional ink jet paper. The matting on this example is just a web presentation. The other issue would be how to prepare this format for ZAPP.
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