Burning and Melting Plastic

I decided that after my last piece, the composition could be further developed, through the addition of a new medium.

I began this piece, with the same method, I fixed photography, cardboard to the canvas. I felt the previous piece was too spaced out, so I decided to focus it in the centre. From the outcome, this development was successful. 

I used a Red Bull can again. However, this time I applied more photography to the piece, as the photos have been a focus throughout this investigation. I used edited photographs that had been emphasised in a certain colour using photoshop, such as the yellow photography of branches of a tree. Roger Hirons work, had a concept of opposites, such as dead and living. I was inspired to use a similar method within my own work, the man-made and the natural. The man-made being the Red Bull can and plastic bottle and the natural being photos of vegetation. 

This piece was a development from the previous experiment because I decided to use plastic to make the piece seem like a whole, instead of separate pieces. The plastic was applied over the top of the whole piece and then using a heat gun melted down. I found from this experiment that a lot of plastic should be used because the heat makes the material shrink down to nothing very quickly. 

To improve this piece, I could further apply a new medium of ink, to emphasise the red and blue that doesn't seem used a lot on the mediums, such as the can printed packaging.