By building up layers of print, Dupree creates very
beautiful images that are very illustrative and often flat. The use of garish
colour is what appeals to me in her work. Black and white is often used as a
base, with added brighter colours to lift the images. It could be said that her
work is chaotic and perhaps childlike in terms of the colour and images used,
yet I see this as a positive as the eye constantly has new things to see that
it didn’t perhaps see last time. Also, each image has been skilfully scaled and
placed in the overall piece to make Dupree’s work highly skilled. I love the
layered effect of applying different colour and shapes on top of one another
which can add some translucency to some images.
Dupree’s work has been printed on cushions and tea towels to
make it affordable to everyone which I love, such as the cushion below. I love
the unusual choice of using a microwave on a cushion and the use of colour and
the subtle yellow edging to the microwave which makes it jump out. The
background images create a good backdrop for the microwave and they compliment
it well. The use of vague prints of other angles of the microwave is very
clever as its extra added detail, yet it doesn’t take focus away from the main
image. The white boomerang shape just lifts the whole piece and I don’t think
it would work as well if the white wasn’t there.
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