The final presentation of my apparatus project, currently in the URECA show.
Project 1: Apparatus
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Project 1 and Project 2 updates
Project 1 is all finished (after a lot of panic and freaking out thanks to broken darkroom vents and the like)! I helped install it for the URECA show today so it’s currently hanging at the SAC Gallery. When the show opens on Monday I’ll get in there to take a picture of the whole set up. It’s 12 images total displayed as a 3×4 grid on the wall. I used L-shaped exhibition pins to attach all the individual prints to the wall, so it’s a little bit 3-dimensional since the prints are not quite flush with the wall. I’m really excited about how it looks.
Today I had the studio reserved and got in to do Project 2. I used two lights, one with the softbox on the left side of my model (my friend Amanda) and another one that I moved around between her right side and behind her back to create a few different effects. I brought a bunch of translucent fabrics (scarves and some dresses) with me and played around with draping those over the lights. It actually worked pretty well! The fabric really changed the color of the lights and I was able to capture a bunch of different moods. I also used my macro lens as it gave me a more interesting effect when I was able to get up close to her face and hair and kept the lights themselves out of the frame. I’m going to upload and edit all of them tomorrow!
Project 1 Ideas
In my Photo 2 class last semester, we had an experimental photography assignment. I ended up working something that I really enjoyed and that I wanted to keep pushing further, and I think that it fits this project well also. I played around with sandwiching negatives in the carrier to create abstract imagery and some other things for this project, but the most interesting thing for me was using actual prints to create photograms, in a sense. I would print one image in the darkroom in the usual way and then place that finished image on top of unexposed paper and expose that to light. The result was the image with the blacks and whites reversed. For this project, I would like to take this further and do it multiple times in a sort of chain to see how long the image stays stable and clear and how far removed I can get it from the original. I’m not sure exactly what imagery I want to use: it is either going to be portraits or urban/cityscapes. I might play around with both. When I have the chance, I’ll scan some of what I started doing last semester and try to look up some artists with similar ideas!