On the saturday I played around with some images, but I was too tired to concentrate. However, by the next day my mind was ready and I produced a stream of images, including a couple which we will not be publishing yet as some of Ania's students and compatriots would not understand.
I was pleased with the basic shot, as I had taken it while on the stairs in our block on our way to work. I might point out that the graffiti is from elsewhere, nearer where we used to live.
I like graffiti a lot as for many people it has been the only way they could express themselves publicly and get away with it, especially when at an age that no one else wants to listen or from a background that has little in the way of voice in society. Since the 1990s there has been an explosion in the quality and color of graffiti here as access to the materials required has improved. Their has also been a shift away from political/racist graffiti to the personal.
I was rather pleased to be able to insert the graffiti into this image, even though I made a few mistakes in the original, some of which made their way into the final image.
Interestingly, graffiti lends itself to this kind of transform. For example, the original was painted on a rough surface and I was able to use a wipe tool to wipe away most of the apparent surface imperfections much as if I were wiping around the wet paint of the original. Secondly, since most graffiti appears on flattish surfaces, it is easy to change its perspective - so this one went from a front-on image to one made to look as if it were on a receding wall. I look forward to using more graffiti - and I would like to thank the unknown artist.
Anyway, the key thing is Ania, and doing the kind of things that help to improve her confidence and success, so that she can follow her own path and achieve what she desires in spite of the people who in the past and present have tried to keep her in check.
She's my bad girl, and I love her.
Pensive Trevor
11 years ago
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