Creating scan art opens a whole new world of creativity and story telling.
When planning out Scan Art, one has to think of what they want to be the most sharp because whatever touches that glass is going to be sharp but anything not touching directly will already begin to blur. When planning out this image I just kept thinking to myself “texture”. I didn’t want anything that was just going to be flat. I looked around my room quite often looking for subject but couldn’t find a thing. I love the detail flowers hold and texture in them but I didn’t want to do just a scan of flowers I wanted it to tell something. Anyone can create scan art, but to me it’s different when it tells a story.
After a long time of pondering possibilities and rummaging through my college refrigerator for textured things I came out with asparagus, and spinach which I decided could be used for Stems for my dead roses in my room. I began to realize that scan art is something so different than any kind of photography because really, what you use doesn’t matter. With this I grabbed a yellow plate from the kitchen and two necklaces from my room to paint my picture on a scanner I set it up all face down and did multiple “overview” attempts before pressing the scan button. The glitter came in last to add in some more detail to the scan.
Maggie Taylor was the first scan artist I remember being introduced to. Her work is amazing and rather than creating just one image in one scan she composites scanned objects to create her work. Check out her Website to see what I mean: http://maggietaylor.com/
