Summer.

This summer i have to say that my thought process has changed. i don't think i go about thinking in the same ways that i used to, everything is purely emotional to me now. rather than a visual creation, i feel things and then have the need to create a representation of it.

... an incomplete thought, for now.

New Project

THE COOLEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

New daily photo blog with International Artists Lydia Katharine Boehr and Alex Lovell Smith.

Check it Out.

The End

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.

work to show in class.

Color

God i miss shooting in color.

next semester, here i come.

Cellular Imaging

Side work, snippet of a paper i wrote.

"Just like the telephone, Multimedia services allow us to be in contact with another person with out the direct confrontation that talking in person would hold. We are freer to communicate imagery and content through a 3^rd person object resulting with a less censored exchange. People in today’s culture grab onto a cell phone like a cigarette we must always be in constant contact with our phones just in case we need to send a quick text or make an emergency call. Now that all of these portable phones are connected with a camera think of it this way: our vice is now to constantly be in physical contact with a camera or video camera. Think of the impact this could make on our society if millions of people were photojournalists, documenting life around them. In essence, this is what the camera phone is, except it is not limited to middle aged men and women but to all ages and races and status levels. Now that we have the beginning of a huge archive of digital images dating from 2004 onward, what will these images mean to society? Thousands of poor quality records of personal and public events are starting to create a new subculture of a Cell Phone genre. Documentation of high and low society can bring a lot of cultural issues into the face of the public, and to mass amounts of people instantly. "

-"Cellular Imaging", for my Alternative Photography class.

Images provided by: Jade Hackett, Travis Williams, Austin Buckingham, and Steven Lewis.

new... well kind of.

So here are some images that i haven't really fit into my series yet. I was going through them all and i figured it might be nice to put them out there just for kicks and giggles.

With our Fathers.










Hair Curlers