Final Project - Proposal

For my final project I would like to create an imagined realm of my own through the inspiration of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle series.  While Barney's work is a series of five films (which I have viewed in their entirety) they are often presented as photographs of film stills.  For my final series I would like to create as many scenarios as possible, I think at least 7 or more.  From these I would like to edit the series down to five scenes.  I will use digital photography with a self timer as I will be in some of the images.  These images will be printed at 11 x 17 to create a greater viewing experience for the audience.  I plan to find willing participants for the images but also have some images that are still lives.  The majority of these scenes will be created within my own apartment for ease of set up and take down.  Other artists who work in a similar manner are Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison and Kahn and Selesnick.  I want the audience to think about how images have an impact on our perception of reality.  The images should cause a sense of confusion and wonderment.  The narrative is that of a journey through this alternate reality.

Project 3 - Final

This series of rotting vegetable still-lives are captured with Edward Weston in mind.  Weston states that his images of vegetables carry no additional meaning but rather are beautiful studies of the forms through his use of light.  In contrast, the rotting images create juxtapositions of the satisfying way light plays with the forms while representing the repulsive, over-consumption of American culture.  The apparently overwhelming desire to have promotes excessive purchasing of more than we need.  Vegetables depict this idea well because of the new forms they take on when they are left unused and inevitably rot.  Capturing these images allows the food to regain purpose after it has long been forgotten in the refrigerator and now await their fate of the garbage.