Asian scroll paintings and their distinctive, "floating" perspective appeal to me greatly. A long time ago, Alan Brown posted a tree image, "Solitary" where as I recall he edited out some unattractive background... which got me thinking. The tree had the twisted look beloved ot the Asian artists, and I found myself playing around with it, with these scrolls in mind. In the meantime, I saw an exhibition of Yang Yongliang's work, which blew me away - beautiful scroll paintings at first glance, but a modern, somewhat horrific dystopia on closer examination. Check him out.
Finally, I decided to make scroll-like images using photographs as the raw material, and am reasonably pleased with results so far, considering it's my first foray. The waterfall image isn't quite right yet, especially in terms of composition. I'll leave the dystopic aspect for now!
What I've concluded is that it's probably best to use images taken with this in mind in the first place, as the images I had available had too little margin around the main subject, so I had to add white borders and then feather the edges, which tended to erode the main image too much. Something to motivate me next time I go into the field.
Thanks for the initial inspiration for this, Alan - and everything else you do.
