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I must confess, I’m a sucker when it comes to colourful patterns. I think I’m attracted to the challenge of creating order and coherency out of what could be disarray and mayhem. Perhaps that makes me a bit of a control freak, but frankly, when it comes to my photography, I think I probably am!<\/p>\n

You can’t really get more orderly than ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’ – three panels, all the same, three primary colours, all aligning.<\/p>\n

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Original source image for ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It started out very simply with three folded pieces of paper. I remember the sun was streaming in through a window in my piano studio and there was a patch of bright sunlight on the carpet. I arranged the pieces of paper on the floor so there was an interplay of shadows, but also, so there were plenty of opposing angles with the folds.<\/p>\n

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After cropping out the unnecessary and distracting edges, and enhancing the colours, I was left with “what next?” As an image by itself, it was interesting enough, but I felt a lot more could be accomplished with some creative playing.<\/p>\n

Changing the orientation made all the difference. I could start to see the potential for a pathway leading upwards. They yellow paper really stood out and provided the inspiration for the title.<\/p>\n

\"'Follow<\/p>\n

A couple of years went by, and, for some reason which I’ve long forgotten, I went back into the ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’ folder on my computer. I decided to try out some different crops and, simplifying the elements even further, chose a very restricted format containing just two colours.<\/p>\n

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Deciding I liked the blue and yellow selection better, I set about the same process of flipping and rotating the three images until I came up with something I liked.<\/p>\n

\"'Paper<\/p>\n

‘Paper Stairway’ was the result. Interestingly, one of my friends pointed out that you can only move up and down the blue stairs.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, there was yet more to discover with these little two-colour crops – the base image for ‘Yellow Brick’ just kept on giving! Preparing to write this blog post saw me delve into ‘Yellow Brick’s’ folder again and I was reacquainted with my mini selections.<\/p>\n

Now I was really determined to push the boat out – I decided to challenge myself and create a larger multi-panel piece which would include both the blue and yellow, and the green and yellow images. With reckless ambition and a rush of blood to the head, I was determined to have nine panels – an enneaptych (and yes, I did have to look that up!)<\/p>\n

After much playing about, which I actually really do enjoy, I created ‘Ascension Blue’.<\/p>\n

\"'Ascension<\/p>\n

Like ‘Paper Stairway’, these Escher-inspired stairs also coalesce around the blue steps in the middle panels.<\/p>\n

Humble pieces of paper have proved to be fertile ground for my triptychs. If you’d like to explore further and see a variety of ‘paper’ triptychs please check out:<\/p>\n

\"'Cascade'<\/a>
‘Cascade’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"'Back<\/a>
‘Back in the Fold’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"'Mystique'<\/a>
‘Mystique’ and ‘Astral Plane’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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