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Pixels - Passport (2005)Pixels was the starting point for the whole 'Colour' series which I did by degrading digital images. And yes, at uni. I did have bright purple hair. -
Paint by Numbers - Mum (2005)A paint by numbers I made from a photo with my mum on the first day I was adopted. I was very interested in making this piece interactive, I made copies of blank paint by numbers for people to colour in. -
Paint by Numbers - Mum closeup (2005)I made no reference to what the colours should be only that my parents were number "1" and I was colour "2" and laid out a large range of flesh colours. A lot of my work has elements of games or children's activities. -
Paint by Numbers - Dad (2005)Paint by numbers I created using a photo of me and my dad on the first day I was adopted. -
Colouring (2005)A variation on paint by numbers, more like a colouring book. -
Hextraction (2005)I wanted to explore role the internet played in adoptees searching for their identities and pasts. I wanted to break down colour even further so I collaborated with two programers to take image pixels and output them into their hexadecimal colour value, which is the main colour code used online (e.g. #FFFFFF is white).
Original Hextractor and PokectHextractor (2005) program created by David Whitney and modified by Adam Newell.
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Hextraction closeup (2005)This is a close up image of the finial piece. The irony is, while this piece was inspired by the Internet yet it is a hard piece to view online as the text has to be so small to be able to seethe larger picture. However there is a very mini online version on the [Mini Hextraction] page. -
The Living Room exhibition (2005)The Living Room exhibition was a collaborative group show made up of 4 of us from the (MA) Media Arts master at MMU. The other three artist were Liz Noble, Magda Stawarska-Beavan and Judith Weik.
See Andrea Zapp's introduction to the exhibition from the original Living Room exhibition post card PDF: thelivingroom.pdf (537 KB)
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Hextration @ The Living Room exhibition (2005)This was one of the pieces I contributed. It was a picture made up of Hexadecimal code over a fake fire place. -
Paint by Numbers - Table @ The Living Room Exhibition (2005)This was one of the pieces I contributed to The Living Room collaborative exhibition made up of 4 of us from the (MA) Media Arts Masters at MMU. On a coffee table I wanted people to sit and colour in the pictures with only flesh tones. Not many people knew at the time, but in the trash can was scrunched up copies of my adoption papers. -
Paint by Numbers - Table closeup @ The Living Room exhibition (2005)Here you can see more clearly the selection of colours I have people.
‘Pixels’, ‘Paint by Numbers’ and ‘Hextraction’ where pieces I developed as the final works of my MA Media Arts master. Before these works I’d stayed away from exploring the transracial aspect of adoption. Transracial adoption is when the family is a totally different race to that of the child. I started to think about weather or not race mattered in a family. This series of works was my need to “break down” colour.