It is time for me to start focusing on myself. I have been worrying about other people especially one certain person for the past 3 years. I have decided I need start putting together my show.
I think I have enough photos of my family and our house to make a full body of work. Showing it for critique was one thing but actually putting it together for a larger audience makes me nervous.
I do love the fact that although people come and go in my life I will always have my art. I love taking photos and painting and drawing. It is also something that if I pour my whole self into it, I will only reap benefits. I want to be taken seriously as an artist but I haven't been doing that much to get out there. I plan on having a full body of work ready to show by January. I am putting this out there because if I say it to someone besides myself then I have to follow through. Once I decide to do something I do it.
I plan on enlarging several black and white prints that I took of my family's house. I also am going to enlarge several color prints of my family that I took. The end result will be about 20-30 images ranging between 16x20 and 20x 24.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Things have been out of focus lately...
Friday, May 23, 2008
Self Portrait - Zulema's Apartment, Brooklyn, June 2004
I found this photo when I searched pinhole camera on Flickr. When I was taking my alternative process class we had to make a pinhole camera for one of the assignments. I didn't realize that you could do color film. I was inspired by this photo to try out color. I borrowed a lens cap for my 35 mm and shot some film. I got some interesting pictures. When I did my pinholes for class I used a small whitman's chocolate box. I made about 10 boxes. The images were about 2.5 x 3 inches. I will scan them in so you can see them. They are pretty creepy.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Austin Trip
I always liked this photo of my friend Cliff. I am not really sure why. Maybe it is the way the light falls into the room and how he is slightly illuminated. Anyway I thought I would post it on here. That was a fun trip.
Friday, May 9, 2008
holga fuck yeah!
I love this photo. I think it captures the essence of the Holga.
Note to self: Don't stay on the phone all night before you have to drive 45 minutes to work. I need an IV of caffeine right into my veins.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Sky Lanterns Festival in Pingsi, 平溪天燈節 2006/2/4
I have become increasingly interested in Asian culture. I found this image on FLICKR. It looks so magical. I would love to have the opportunity to go and photograph something like this. The changes that have occured have been overwhelming. I can't tell if I am dealing with every thing to the best of my ability. I am trying to. I have so many thoughts and emotions and desires. I don't know what to take and what to leave behind. I am going to be totally moved into the house by saturday. I am finished with school. I don't have to ever take another class ever again if I don't want to. Which leads me to the decision of whether or not I should go to Grad School. I am interested in teaching but that means more school and more loans. It could also mean a better job and new friends. I cut and dyed my hair. I haven't photographed myself yet. But I will get some good pics of me with my new hair.
To new beginnings!!!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Graduation 2008
This year is a big year for me and a lot of my friends. Graduation is here again. This photo is one of my roommate that I did for her for our upcoming graduation. Life is stressful right now and I feel like I have some important decisions to make.
I saw this comic and I related to it.
http://www.explodingdog.com/title/ithinkaboutyoualot.html
I feel so tired. Last night I went to McKinney and hung out with Cliff and we went to the park and took photos and then we went to the cemetery. I should be studying for my art history final. I've just been doing so much stuff I want to do nothing in my down time.
On to the important stuff:
Because I have been doing more commercial work recently I haven't had much time to keep you updated on my fine art series that I have been working on. I started photographing my family over a year ago and have been thinking since then how I would like to continue with that body of work. When I began taking my family's pictures my brothers still lived in the house with my mom. Now we all live in different places.
I started to think about the different things that I could photograph that would give the viewer an idea of how different the house is now that my brothers and I no longer live there. I decided that I would shoot black and white film and I wanted to shoot more of the house and the objects in it and not so much of the people. When I first developed the rolls of film that I shot I really didn't care for them much at all. I scanned the images into my computer and looked at them several times. There was just something about them that didn't say what I wanted to say at that moment in time. I put them aside and didn't think about them for a long while. My final Black and white Project was due on May 1st. So I had to get those negatives back out and decide if I had something I could use or if I needed to go and reshoot. As I started looking at the images I began to see them in a different way. I picked out about 15 or so images that I wanted to print and decided to use those. My critique was a good one. I recieved a postive response. One person said that I was able to shoot the house like it was a person and that it appeared to glow. When I read my artist statement I started to feel very emotional. I began to to think about my recent move and my mother being in that three bedroom house all alone. It made me feel sad and a little scared. I always wonder what the future holds. I haven't digitally edited the photos of the house yet but I will soon and I will post some on here.