Fracture XlV Long Sleeve T-Shirt

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This project started by taking some photographs of rock faces with cracks and fractures that I thought it would be interesting to explore.

This is an assembly of the of some of the original pictures - the black strips top and bottom are to concentrate ones attention on the natural shapes and textures.

Other than cutting out sections along the fractures to give interesting shapes, I haven't composed any of this work - rather... as it developed, I devised a system of grids, placing the original samples randomly, then started rotating sections of the grid to overlay other grids underneath and then applying layer filters.
I wanted to have as little control over the resulting compositions as possible.

Photographs taken with a Nikon D7000 and a 18-300mm Nikkor lens.

I started off in fine art, by going to Wakefield School of Art and then St Martins in London to do Sculpture, I have spent most of my time (after going to Camberwell School of Art for a Graphics degree) doing graphic design, working through various sectors including publishing, sales promotion, marketing, and design consultancies, before starting my own company in 1995. I have always to some extent kept up with the fine art - even when this just meant going out sketching with my dad... and its always played a big part in my design work. Most recently though I have being doing rather allot of drawing, re igniting a passion for my long lost love of fine art (or scribbling). From sketching my neighbours little girl, I found myself...