This is one of my favorite projects I've done! The assignment was to make a piece that disproved Kant's statement that color wsa inessential to art. I wanted to use the technique we had learned from Triton Mobley of separating R G and B channels and moving them slightly to get a distorted neon effect, because I felt like that was a fun way to showcase color. I also wanted to use a collage that I had made last spring while messing around in a studio in List. The collage, pictured below was fun but felt bare.
I brought the image into Photoshop to see what I could do to make it more fun. Originally I was just going to find more pieces to add to the college that I found on the internet or from my photos, but I stumbled across something better. I was selecting the background of the image in order to delete it and make it transparent, and when I clicked to delete it, I clicked content aware fill instead of transparent. This duplicated the context I wasn't deleting and copied it in a computer generated way to fill the empty space. I really enjoyed how it looked, so I kept it. Then I separated the channels and moved the layers around a bit to get the neon distortion effect. Another stipulation of the assignment was making an additive color version and a subtractive color version (RGB and CYMK respectively.) In the RGB version, I separated into R, G, and B. In the CYMK version, I seaprated it into C, M, Y, and K.