Film: Altered Negatives

"Be aware of the giants"

ARTIST STATEMENT

I really like all of the altering and manipulation we've been doing. I didn't know how much we could do with a negative after we've taking the picture. Instead of manipulating the transparency paper i scratched the actually negative this time and then used it to make a print. With this one I aimed for comedy again. Given it's actually pretty hard to draw or scratch on a negative because they're so small. This one turned out pretty well, but scratching it was only the first step. I had to go into the darkroom and make a print for a negative I've never worked with. All I really had to do was change the time exposed. Before I started working with this negative, I had to clean off a lot of dust. You can see in the top right and underneath the person on the right that I didn't get quite all of it. Besides that I think that the print came out well. The giant came out looking like a giant to me at least. The print was nice a dark and then it dried down to be even better. I feel like I should have added more to the negative because it seems like its empty. If I had more time to work on this project that's what I would do.