These Nnenna Okore-inspired images for The Kick-About No. 140 began simply enough as photographs of the caustics at the bottom of a holiday swimming pool. The ‘netting effect’ of the sunlit water on the bottom of the pool put me in mind of Okore’s own fabrics, so I set myself the trial-and-error task of working with these images to produce something interesting.
When I look at these resulting images, I see explosions of string or perhaps rubber bands—and cross-sections of geodes too. There’s something pathogenic about some of them, so maybe a touch creepier than rubber bands! Anyway, it was good experimental fun.
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