Here's the final presentation of work for Semester show.
I got some pretty good feedback from these images and how they are displayed. I know that i can always improve on my print quality and craft but i am pretty proud of how this body came together.
Since I’ve started my work on the “Playing House” series I have become more aware of how I think about my work and myself through the filter of childhood. I used this method of thinking to help me sort out ideas I have on family, self, and space by projecting them onto ideal versions of my childhood self.
My final critique on my work this semester I felt I got the most feed back that related to my concepts and what I should think about in the future. So bare with me as I list some of them below:
----The Jealousy that adults tend to have of freedom of childhood. I think that this statement means a lot more to me at the end of this project then it would have at the start. I have arrived at a point were I am reminiscing on my past and remembering how easy it was just to play, and enjoy moments. As I get older I wish more and more for those time to come back.
----The effect of age in regards to the characters in my images. When I started creating this series I paid little to no attention to disguising the age of my sisters and I in my pieces. A comment that was made by Cyan in critiques saying “Well what if these were images of girls in their sixties,” made me think of all the connotations of what being a young adult means. The word YOUNG-ADULT is a hybrid of maturity and immaturity, this is a very delicate age to be at for women and it becomes a very pivotal point in the direction of a person’s life.
----The growth of my images by means of spatial value and story telling. Very well put in critiques was the fact that my images have grown much more personal and abstract as I have continued through the series. The image called “The Hoover” takes away facial emotion and lends them to the body so the bodies of the character hold the power. The image called “Secrets” of the girls under the blanket shows us the relation of space, inside a space and how it can be inhabited differently. I have removed the action of the scene from the viewer and it adds a new element to the moment of the photograph.
