walking around the exhibit one particular picture stood out to me. Picture number 17. i thought it was beautiful in a slightly alarming way. from across the room you just see so much going on and it brings you in as you study all the detail of everything. you look at each individual bird and the mice and the mini war that seems to be going on between them. the mice and invading the home of these birds taking their eggs and killing some of them in the process. its tragic but at the same time compelling i want to see even more.
the work its self is is a digital composite silver gelatin print. it was created by Jaime Kennedy from a series called the down the garden, it is a combination of photography sculpture and digital imaging. these effects all work together drawing you in and showing you this completely fictional world that for a moment you can almost believe is real.
in the picture you see the mice invading looking hostile and like they do not belong there. some of the mice are snarling and stealing the eggs. the mice take up most of the right side of the picture running into the nests on the ground and through the branches of nearby trees. the birds on the other hand and the left side of the picture look slightly more calm, which makes very little sense seeing as their homes are being invaded, i think this is due in large part to the large bird with the apparatus wings, who seems to be coming forth and protecting them. this bird is much larger than any of the others and with his created wings he gives off a sense of power.
to me i think that the birds and mice represent the constant fight between good and evil, the apparatus bird representing differences that you can either learn to embrace or let them define you. the only thing i question is the butterfly in the picture. one lone butterfly flying between the bird and the mice. what does it represent? the calm before the storm? the beauty in every situation? im eager to hear what anyone else has to think on this piece.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
project
Monday, September 17, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
3 images i appreciated
As i read the assigned reading i first skimmed through the pictures, 3 automatically stood out to me. i read through it and the idea of them stood out even more.
The first one, was the two pictures by Charles Cohen, (12b, and Andie 04) these archival inkjet prints take pornographic images and remove what would be considered the main attraction. this just blew my mind. first of all i still blushed just thinking of what could be there, but once i got past that i was able to focus on the other things like the blue bed or the wall paper orr even the bowl of fruit on the table. to me its like hes trying to tell people to appreciate the main things, but dont forget the little things as well.
the second picture (my favorite of all) was by Ken Donzales-Day. (ramoncita at the cantina) i thought it was beautiful the way that everyone in the picture was slightly blurred and in bland color where the woman was in a beautiful almost teal dress and she looks like shes in fluid motion. and i thought it was because she was the only woman but if you look closer then you notice a woman sitting down, this makes me think that my teal dress woman may have had some kind of importance. the man beside her also has a light shading of the blue on his chest making me think that they were connected in some way.
lastly the images by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew. (bollywood satirized) i like the way he too the dreamlike images we associate with an escape from reality and brings reality into it. when i go to the movies i look for an escape from whats going on in the real world. im probably not the only one who thinks this way. He takes things like current events such as the nuclear crisis, to your escape. then he throws the truth into it writing things on the characters such as "Casanova" or "don juan" telling you that real life isnt like these movies. life is no fairy tail.
The first one, was the two pictures by Charles Cohen, (12b, and Andie 04) these archival inkjet prints take pornographic images and remove what would be considered the main attraction. this just blew my mind. first of all i still blushed just thinking of what could be there, but once i got past that i was able to focus on the other things like the blue bed or the wall paper orr even the bowl of fruit on the table. to me its like hes trying to tell people to appreciate the main things, but dont forget the little things as well.
the second picture (my favorite of all) was by Ken Donzales-Day. (ramoncita at the cantina) i thought it was beautiful the way that everyone in the picture was slightly blurred and in bland color where the woman was in a beautiful almost teal dress and she looks like shes in fluid motion. and i thought it was because she was the only woman but if you look closer then you notice a woman sitting down, this makes me think that my teal dress woman may have had some kind of importance. the man beside her also has a light shading of the blue on his chest making me think that they were connected in some way.
lastly the images by Annu Palakunnathu Matthew. (bollywood satirized) i like the way he too the dreamlike images we associate with an escape from reality and brings reality into it. when i go to the movies i look for an escape from whats going on in the real world. im probably not the only one who thinks this way. He takes things like current events such as the nuclear crisis, to your escape. then he throws the truth into it writing things on the characters such as "Casanova" or "don juan" telling you that real life isnt like these movies. life is no fairy tail.
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