Las Dos Fridas

I forgot to do a reflection for my last post so here it is: I've abandoned the idea of doing hands and indentity, instead I'm going to work with abstraction and man vs. nature. I am in the process of writing a new mission statement for my blog, it should be up by friday. With the new pictures I'm taking I'm trying to include depth and make it three dimensional, because I seem to be having trouble with that. On monday I went outside and took some photos, I'm still deciding whether to edit them or not, but heres the better of the pieces I took before being editted.

The Persistence of Memory

Dance Amongst Daggers

The rusted manhole is going to be editted by tomorrow and put side by side with the other man hole I had for man v nature. I'm thinking I'm going to be changing my concentration to man v. nature and abstract.

American Gothic

I  don't know if I could include these into my concentration but I like them anyway and so I thought I'd post them online. The first picture is a picture of a dying bush in my yard, and the second is of meat. I took the first photo while I was exploring the idea of man v nature, and I tok the second when I was taking a picture of Ansley cooking, my personal connection to the photo is that I'm a vegetarian and I wanted people to see how bloody and gross the meat they eat is. Who knows I'm still exploring. I have arrangements to have hand models today.

This Is Not A Pipe

I've decided to name each new post after a famous piece of art, thus "This Is Not A Pipe." This week I took a few more photos hands. At first it was easy to just take a shot of a family member's hand and now it's becoming difficult to capture other people's hands because I don't like taking pictures at school due to the light and outside of school my hand subjects don't have the time nor the patience to get their hand picture taken. I'm still stuck on the idea of hands and individualism, this week I explored the idea of inner peace as a concentration, but to no avail. I thought I could turn my one of my hand photos into a photo story; each hand being a piece of a heart shape and photoshop collaged together to make up one heart, if that makes sense, sorry that was weird to put into words, it'll make sense when it's done and I post it. When I had my critigue during the end of first semester the comment was made that I take very good geometric shape photos; I'm wondering if there is a way I can incorporate my strength of shapes into my concentration. The bike gears are going to be in the photo story of the hand with the stethoscope. The colthes are going with the hand with the cellphone. And the hand that is cooking is going to be it's own photo story. The arm with with bracelet I liked for the hands project because it showed culture and experience. The lights and the prayer flag were my experimentation with inner peace and religion.

For my concenrtation I'm thinking I want it to be about hands or individualism. I want the concenrtation to speak about how every one is unique and different and different is beauty. I'm also thinking of doing a peace and traditional theme to speak about inner zen and peace, and how even when the world seems to be crashing down around you and everything seems to be changing there's still such a thing as inner peace and tranquility. I'm thining about adding religion to that second idea and possibly getting individualism out of that.