(This post was originally uploaded to My Site On Multiply on: 1st January 2009 at 3:38 pm , It has been revised for this blog post. )
The Angel image has personal significance for me, due in part to the inspiration coming from a monument in a graveyard near my home.
200 years ago The Black Mountain was the site of a quarry, it’s sluice was named Y Gwter Fawr. The workers came from all over England and Wales, bringing their families with them and a settlement grew up at the bottom of the mountain. This settlement took on the name of the sluice, and in time became a village. Sometime around 1845, it became known as Brynamman.
Gibea Chapel, Upper Brynamman has 2 graveyards, they contain the graves of many families connected to the quarry. The evidence of their labour is still visible on the mountain and in the original parts of the village.
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Gibea Chapel |
Through these photos and by placing myself inside them, as a Modern-day Angel figure; I attempted to re-connect to the forgotten history of the village and the legacy left by those hard working men and women, who laid the foundations of I village I now live in.
My dress was designed and hand sewn by myself, I styled it to resemble the dress the Angel Monument wears.
Using a computer program I took the Black and white image and changed it into a negative image of the original photo. After that I saved the negative effect and added a "Fire-Light" effect over the top. I then altered the saturation and contrast.
Stamped onto my back using 100 Year Old Printer's Gothic Script letter stamps, borrowed from a Printer's Archive Storage.
The above images, and two below, where all taken in varies parts of the Black Mountain itself, the sites of these photographs, I chose for their Historical significance in the forming of what would become the Village of Brynamman.
I thought it worked really well and so I used the same computer software to manipulate this photo into a headless Angel, and then give it "age" by changing the visual effect to Sepia tones.
Angel, Quarry Road.
This time I decided to experiment with the image using "Fire-Light" effect, and then alter the saturation.
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