After doing research into graphic scores and copyrighted material, I had an idea of making a graphic score with copyrighted or stolen images and then making a collage.
I started by going to the library and just going through graphic books and finding interesting images.
After picking a few photos and images, I scanned them and printed them and took them home to make something.
I had a spare canvas around and started cutting up parts that I liked and layered down a few for an idea of a composition on the canvas. At the same time, I was inspired by Basquiat and what was written about music and sound being displayed through images, so I put on some music to inspire me while I was doing this, in hopes that the music came across In the visual work. At the same time, I was being fluid with what a graphic score could look like.
After this, I decided to add some texture and layers to my graphic score, so I removed the pieces and started painting a background in the sections I identified as being part of the graphic score.
In a similar style to Basquiat I acted on instinct and just painted with and without paint brushes, in some instances I just squeezed the paint onto the canvas from the paint itself. After this, I started glueing on the cut-out pieces to form another layer of the graphic score.
So it ended up like this. I glued it all down, drew around it with a biro pen I had in hand and wrote my artist name on the top right-hand corner. “dereck d.a.c.”. I also added a reduced sticker off my dinner that I bought on the way home, in a way it felt interesting to put this on art, to speak as if it’s commodified and now reduced, similar to my ideas around this portfolio project.
So to reflect on this, for me it does not look like a graphic score, perhaps because I acted instantly I didn’t think about a graphic score and let the music and my creativity guide my process. I will either attempt this as a score or perhaps have the cover as a score, so use this as the artwork cover for the project and consider it a score of the album.