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 After doing my initial print experiments, I decided to experiment with collage. I photocopied some of my screen prints, and collaged them together. I wanted to start to incorporate other elements in with my wood block prints, and start to go into mixed media. I chose to combine images and text together, and layer text on top of each other. I combined the coloured prints and the black and white photocopies together. After this, I then looked back at my other prints and noticed that the one main strong element was the eye. It stood out the most on each print, and because of this I decided to take this aspect further. 

I decided to paint basic eye shapes, much like the eye shape I cut out on my wood block, onto the collages. I used blues and greens as I felt that colour stood out best on the red and black and also complimented the base colours quite well. I really liked how it created this reading of authoritarianism and the idea of someone watching you. From this, I then decided to look up eyes as a symbol, to relate back to the saying that I'm exploring, and ended up looking at 'The Evil Eye' and it's many different interpretations.

I really found it interesting how this one symbol is represented in so many different ways in different cultures and religions, and this allowed me to develop my own interpretations. I decided draw out some designs based on some symbols I had first seen, going with the traditional eye shape, and adding black lines and dots around the eye. I used the same colours - dark blue, light blue, black and white for each. I then decided to try out drawing my own hand design much like the ones I had seen. I tried to make it my own, and not copy what I had seen. Finally, I settled on the ink drip version, I first did a small one where I painted an eye in the same style, then dripped light, pearlescent ink and bright green pearlescent ink down the image to give it this melting effect. I quite liked this idea and decided to take it further - doing a slightly bigger version, this time using only inks to paint it out, and then dripping dark blue ink, the light blue and light green ink down the image. I preferred this version a lot more as the dripping ink merged in with the actual eye, so the melting effect looked a lot more effective here. 

I then decided to add this idea to one of my collages to see how it would change the text and existing imagery. I think overall it's an interesting image and the dripping ink does add something to the collage.  I think I might take this one step further and try this out on other collages, i.e. magazine collages, dripping over newspaper text etc. I might also try and design an evil eye for printing, and print that over text and images etc. 

- combine print with the image?
- magazine collage?
- newspaper text?
- evil eye wood block print? 







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