Modernising Tutankhamun

For my 'Time' project, I've tried to put a modern swing on the Ancient Egyptians..

I went from looking at mummies and hieroglyphs to looking at circuit boards.

I thought circuit boards would be a great contrast, as they are so modern in comparison to the Ancient Egyptians. I was interested in the idea that the codes and little details on circuit boards are like a new version of hieroglyphs, as I have no idea what any of the numbers or lines mean, so to me hieroglyphs and circuit board codes are equally complicated.

Here is my King Tut circuit board.

He's on a board that is about 1.25 m x 0.5 m, and painted with emulsion and acrylic.

I tried to simplify the circuit board by just using basic shapes to represent it, and painted the shapes on different scales for each section.

I used wood because I think it suits the theme of ancient egyptians, as it seems a lot more handmade to me, and a lot of the artefacts I've seen were made of wood.

I also really like the look of the bright paint against the dull, speckled surface.

The artist I looked at when I created this piece is Jonny Wan, because I really like how complicated and technical his portraits (if that's what you'd call them) look.The composition of this one in particular reminded me of a mummy as it is so symmetrical and due to the lack of facial expression.

I love his use of shape and colour. His work is very clean, but I wanted mine to look a lot more hand made but still fairly technical.