Funny how the stuff I put the most effort into and processed the shit out of now make me nauseous, while many pieces that I completely overlooked or discarded now give me hope for poor high school Daniel.
I think I've come to understand that this is to be expected and I will constantly be looking back at old work and fighting the urge to kill it with fire and spears. I don't know quite how long the embarrassment window is, but I sorely miss the journals and doodles of my youth (particularly one schematic of a dormant volcano/airplane hangar complete with lava tube runways).
At any rate, here's some originally overlooked stuff I'm not entirely ashamed of:
(I resisted the urge to do some photoshop tweaking on less-than-stellar images)
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| Love me some squares. |
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| Cliche verre photogram technique. Paint on glass exposed onto photo paper. Should've experimented more with it. |
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| Holga print with custom-made negative holder. |
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| Holga print with custom-made negative holder. Kinda digging the simplicity in this one. |
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| From my ever-so-brief foray into printmaking. Linoleum cut print. I don't even know what I made this for. |
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| Crossroads 2011 is not a real thing. I think. Working on layers/masking in photoshop maybe? |
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| This image caused me a lot of strife. "Oh, Daniel, this is so morbid." "Oh, Daniel, is this one about death too?" "Oh, Daniel, I see that death motif coming up again." I just liked the textures. Jeez. |
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| Entered this one for a logo contest. Didn't win. Maybe they should get a better URL. |
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| Probably should've majored in Trespassing. |
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| Turns out I'm kind of a one-trick pony with the whole "abandoned stuff" theme. Not even a very original trick to begin with. Rip Van Winkle's Plymouth. |
