Graduation 2008

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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.