{"id":1207,"date":"2023-11-15T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:44:26","slug":"desire-path-tape-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"Desire path tape drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"
I traced some enlarged photos that I took of desire paths at YSP onto acetate using masking tape. I enjoyed exploring this technique when I was translating my poppy head images earlier in the term and so was keen to try it again.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I experimented with overlaying these and also with including blocks of colour to define certain areas.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I like that the tape has this quality of being slightly rigid and linear, but also pliable and has enough give to create an organic line. I like this balance as a material choice because it lends itself nicely to abstracting the form of the original photographs without taking away their pleasing undulation.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I think that the lack of a horizon line in both images slightly un-anchors them. In the textile sketches I created, the horizon line gave the path lines context and grounded them in the piece, even though it is a subtle, even abstract, addition. <\/span><\/div>\n

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I also think that playing around with scale when layering images like this works well and I will make a few more of these with that in mind and see what works.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I am not hugely pleased with my initial end results but I think it was worth having a play around with it and I will revisit them next week with the above 2 points in mind to see if I can rework the pieces.<\/span><\/div>\n

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IIf I managed this then I would like to use these masking tape images to create some prints.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I would also like to experiment with some photography using these acetate images and an OHP.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I traced some enlarged photos that I took of desire paths at YSP onto acetate using masking tape. I enjoyed exploring this technique when I was translating my poppy head images earlier in the term and so was keen to try it again. I experimented with overlaying these and also with including blocks of colour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}