Scrap Archive
Liz Awesome's ecosystem of conceptual stock photography is your new favorite art supply.
Scraps of memory... mysticism... revolution... The Scrap Archive is experiment in non-appropriative cultural and artistic exchange practices.
The Scrap Archive is for Individuals, Designers, and Cohort Facilitators
Work digitally when the nervous system is being suspiciously still. Pair the process with text divination to connect with your needs.
Use 3-5 pictures, or maybe 7. Or maybe the same image multiple times to create shadows and echos. At least one layer near the back should be a picture of a piece of paper - this is the bay leaf.
Try using a variety of digital services like Photoshop, Procreate, Google Slides, or Canva. Think about using the images in time, like videos or as green screen images.
Explore your photo editing tool! You’ll find additional tools like paint brushes, opacity options, and other features. You can also purchase other accoutrements - I started creating these materials after being inspired by True Grit Texture supply, which makes paintbrushes that look like dirt.
Making choices with digital collage can be a little unsettling at first because there’s really no right answer. There are a lot of different ways to structure the layers of your piece that are going to get different results. Think about composition, movement, art works you’ve enjoyed previously, and all the weird useless advice you’ve ever received.
Experiment in Liminal Space Time
Keep resolving your piece until it expresses itself back to you.
Put some words on it and it becomes a meme.
Print it on a laser jet printer to use it for a gelli plate creation...
send it into a magazine...
or glue it onto the back of your resume.
Credit Liz Awesome Art | Tag @LIzAwesome.Art
& I can cheer you on.
Example Collections & Possible Uses:
- Designer hand bags - colors and textures
- Flowers - a variety of real flowers as well as a collection of flowers in art
- Museum things - the surfaces of museum things generate a quality of light
- Delis - culture
- Floors - surface texture provides a sense of grain in digital work
- Fruits and Vegetables - skins can be used as overlap
- Nature Experience - work reductive to get pops of green
- Outsides of Buildings and Structures - signs and shapes
- Papers - torn and folded for layering
- Interiors - weird spaces
- Vignettes + Object d’Art - objects
- Walls - patterns
- Microscopy - going deep & looking close