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| Pakayla Biehn "You or Your Memory" |
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| Pakayla Biehn"Ten Thousand Times" |
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| Pakayla Biehn |
This week in
class we discussed our final project ideas, and a lot of my classmates were
thinking about double exposing their negatives. I thought that I would look up
some photographers who use that method in their artwork. I stumbled on Pakayla
Biehn, a painter who uses Photoshop to combine multiple photographs together,
and then paints what she creates. She was diagnosed with Strabismus when she was younger, and one
of its side effects is double vision. She chose to see the positive effects of
her “disability”, and incorporate it into her artwork.
Originally I looked
at some small thumbnail images of Biehn’s work, and I was drawn to the colours
and interesting compositions. When I blew up the images, I was amazed to see
that they were in fact painted and not photographs. Her brush strokes became
more apparent, and some even had texture incorporated. This is yet another
artist who brings up the question of truth in her artwork.
“Adobe
Photoshop arrived in the early 1990’s, concurrent with functional digital
cameras, and since then critical debates about photography and its
interpretations of the world have largely centered on one question: How can we
believe in an image as fact if it can be imperceptibly altered?” (Grundberg)
When reading up on
the artist, I learned that the original images she chooses are metaphors for
her personal relationships. She aims to portray what is real, but her final
pieces seem surrealistic and dreamy. She likes to pair the beauty of nature
with photos of people. Using Photoshop and other technical methods to combine
her pictures, she thought that a photorealistic painting style was the most
appropriate so as not to confuse viewers.
Work Cited
Grundberg, A. A Dangerous Weapon, The fault is not in the camera, but in ourselves. Retrieved from The American Scholar.
Biehn, P. (2014). Pakayla Biehn. Retrieved from http://www.youshouldtakecare.com
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