Copier Art was something completely new and foreign to me. This is a thing? Of course I’d heard of the prank where you climb up on the office copier and photocopy various body parts….ooooh, how risque! Not so much in this day…maybe it’s a fun office holiday party gag. I’d be more concerned about breaking the glass on the copier.
Prof. Roundtree set us on creating a piece with photocopied images of ourselves…ONLY photocopied images – no color, no embellishment of the image(s) themselves. I think the hardest part for most students was finding a copier that someone would let one play with. Fortunately, all I had to do was head in to work on a weekend. The copiers at work are on the smallish side, so no climbing around for me…I just photocopied my face, arms and hands in different positions, then ran four copies of each, which gave me a pretty good stack of material to work with.
What will I create? That was the hardest part for me. With such a “limiting” medium (kidding), I was stymied for a bit…until I remembered an IG post from my pal Jason (https://organicparadox.org, IG: @tincsart) – he was working on a paper bunny mask that was all comprised of geometric shapes. On a whim I Googled “paper masks.” BOOM! The mother-lode, Wintercroft.
After looking through the available kits I decided to do the full-sized fish mask (fish head & tail) because I liked its large geometric shape and I thought it would become an interesting canvas for the copier photos. I think it worked out really well.
I printed the pieces on card stock, then glued the copier photos on the pieces with spray adhesive before cutting them out for assembly. I did this step first because I wanted the positioning to be somewhat random, with a jumbled pattern to appear over the form. The black and gray fingers and arms create a strange muddled overlay to the overall form, which actually hides the shapes more and makes it more realistic…but definitely funky. That’s what I was going for. Random. Mission accomplished.
Love it! Thanks for sharing.
Woah, this is amazing! Credit due to my girlfriend on making the bunny mask but I love where the muse has taken you, Don! That fishhead mullet mask is the bomb!!