I have decided that I would like to create a joiner using this one image. I have chosen this specific image as I think that it relates to the theme of union due to the display of relationships. In this image, there are many different relationships on show when you look closely such as father and daughter, friends/family, mother and daughter and father and son. These relationships link to union as union, as a noun, is used to describe when people or things come together.

I started this off my opening the image in Photoshop and creating a new guide layout. I made this guide layout 10 by 7 so that each segment would be a square.

I then adjusted the image so that it would fit the grid. I would like there to be a slight gap between each image so that the outcome will be similar to Hockney’s “Swimming Pool”.

I then cropped each small image piece by copy and pasting the whole image, selecting a piece, selecting the piece’s inverse, deleting the inverse then deselecting. I repeated this process until I had a complete image.

I then removed the guide.

I then adjusted the brightness and contrast of the different fragments. I wanted there to be a significant difference in brightness to make the final outcome more interesting and abstract.

I then made a few more adjustments to get my final result:

This result did not turn out how I had envisioned. I personally prefer it before I made changes to the brightness and contrast. I also think it would have been better if I didn’t split the little girl into 4 and, rather, displayed her as a whole as you can barely see her.