Finally this first half of the year has come to an end :) My last assessments for these subjects were on Thursday 16th of June and I am on my winter holidays before my final semester of uni!
In my negotiated study I started with the plan to investigate portrait photography and creative ways to take photos of people. I experimented with different elements where I set it up to look unplanned as well as set up a studio for some very deliberate poses. With experimentation I found new ways of taking photos of people and played with some experimental ways of taking self portraits. Through my experimentation I moved from my original plan to explore the possibilities of portrait photography to an experimental way of expressing myself. I have played with ideas of memory and the condition of the mind with focus and long exposure experiments. These final images show how I like to think of myself as a calm confident woman but inside I am anxious and confused about everything in life.
In Photography Specialisation B my experiments have been focused on the strangeness of dreams and impossibilities as I have been increasingly interested in surrealism. From the beginning of this semester where I started with the illusion of the impossible I have moved on to montages challenging the limits of strangeness while still maintaining an element of normality. Like dreams, which are strange but somehow still appear normal at the time, I try to keep an idea of reality through landscape, horizon and story elements.
March 2011, 'Wet Wonder'
March 2011, 'Am I Falling the Right Way?'
April 2011, '2 Tangible-D'
April 2011, 'My Happy Place'
April 2011, 'Battle at Dragon Rock'
April 2011, 'My Magic Scarf'
May 2011, 'What Brought Us Here?'
May 2011, 'Beautiful Suffocation'
April 2011, 'Night Land'
June 2011, 'Melding of Dreams'
Now with this semester down I only have one to go which is exciting and scary at the same time. If you want to know what I plan for next year I'll answer you now, "I have no idea."
Enjoy my art :)
