Notes
Link to finalized senior show power point for bullet point description of project:
Link to book discussed last time:
I'd love for you all to check it out if you haven't! It's from my fully funded expedition the Honors College and Research department sent me on. I'm also giving a lecture Wednesday night about honors college qualitative research in relation to journalism and the arts if you're interested.
Chapter Two Reflection
On page 16 the quote from Conor Risch about "living" with the photos really hit me. When I was writing my book this summer and selecting images, my faculty mentor had me print out about 300 pictures and hang them on my walls in taped off town sections. Up with them I tacked in notes and stories and quotes. They were entirely covered and I was living and breathing those pictures until they turned into drafts. Artist statements are difficult. Reading this advice was very helpful, especially the examples. The lines between project and artist statements were also always blurry to me but now they make sense. Speaking in past tense or passive voice are two of my greatest writing downfalls. Having these positive ones to read will be great to look back at when composing my own. When my pictures have been accepted into a few galleries over the past couple years, I've actually asked the curator thoughts on pricing art. I'm glad we are working on websites later on. I loved how Schwartz brought up Hootsuite for social media. I love the platform and often find it's lesser known. My photography social media is very behind in comparison. Reading this had me shaking my head at the fact I don't have a photography twitter or even really a Facebook page. My instagram is updated scattered here and there and not consistently. This inspired me to go back and look at that all.
Photography Project Update
Waiting for curing before final resin photoshoots and started painting photoshoot. I sorted through my previous resin photographs to pick out initial highlights for comparison with the other mediums.
I had my first painting photoshoot to figure out materials, lighting, the set up, and how to use the space. I am including a couple of those from this initial shoot. I also was using oil paints for this but have decided after this trial and error session that acrylics would work significantly better.
Very thorough! I am glad the book is inspring you. Instagram is really important.I like the sisth photo of the resin with the orange shirt and blue gloves. Did you plan that shirt? Thanks for the posting the link to the student research project...GP
ReplyDeleteThat is actually my resin apron, so it's just a part of the process but I chose to go with the blue gloves over my normal clear because I thought they would blend in too much.
ReplyDeleteI like the way tha one works to become an interesting photo is itself rather than simply an instruction. With your isolation time erhaps you could make some images of your thought process. They could be black and white? They could be nebulous as the thought process behind art often is.
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