Robert P. Taylor's: Chippery Portraits on Paint Chips
Using pencil or pen, each portrait in this site was created upon an old paint chip between 1 and 4 inches high, by drawing selected details of the features of a face suggested by the chip's shape. The chips used were either retrieved from where they'd fallen or carefully extracted from some patch of peeling paint on a wall before they actually fell. No chip was chosen unless its shape either immediately suggested a human expression, or somehow persuaded me it would if I just had a few minutes to study it. Creating the first couple portraits had nothing to do with websites, but was merely a serendipitous form of entertainment sandwiched in between other tasks. From digitizing, enlarging, printing out, and framing three chip portraits for a small exhibition, though, I got the idea for a website featuring chip portraits.Creating chip portraits intrigued me and made me want to share it with others. To see a shape, to see in that shape an image that could be brought forth, and then to realize it - that I wanted to share it with others. I knew the best way to accomplish that would be through an interactive site that might allow visitors to simulate my experience in full, but I did not have the extensive time creating such a site would require. Rather than do nothing, I decided to compromise by putting up a site that would at least suggest to the visitor what enjoyable experience lurked in this mundane context, and leave until some possible future date the creating of an interactive site on this subject. Thus, Chippery was born.
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