As I was working on this idea, I starting doing exactly what I told myself not to do... And that is plan out what i wanted to see on the wall, but subconsciously I ended up doing just that. This brought my production to a stand still because I was trying all too hard to fit the images I was creating to my predetermined frame.
So on my last meeting with Jeff we got totally sidetracked paying all of our 20 mins to laying out all of my contact sheets across the table. We were examining and admiring the way the contact sheets themselves looked. The contact sheets were from a shoot that I did where I was trying to capture the images of an egg just as it is breaking on a surface as if someone had dropped it. The contact sheets made a story line, a musical composition, and a record of the struggle of achieve that perfect image. Some of the individual images had the egg smashed on the table and many of the images had nothing at all in them. Visually I feel that this image really expresses some idea of chaos and calm that I was originally working with but it is definitely going to be a change in my artist statement. For me this imagery is more interesting, but concern lies in the subject matter within the individual photographs. Some people were confused to why there was an egg falling, why an egg.
So I have decided that I am going to approach this material in a few different ways. I have only about a week before I have to go to the printers so it is very little time to get critiques on this new imagery so i will try multiple things to discuss and show off.
First of all I got to this imagery by simply trying to create a "perfect image." It is probably an image I have seen in different places or in my head multiple times. During creation, I ran into different challenges, such as, my camera not being fast enough, the giant mess it created and the challenge of simply capturing this image. So for this first experiment I am going to pick three stock photography images where something is falling and breaking and the photographer gets the exact right moment. I am going to try to recreate this imagery in the similar way that I approached the egg shoot. My reasoning behind this will end up being more about the process than the end product. I think this really expressing my ideas of calm and chaos because it is the cycle of the life we live, there will always be ups and downs.
Secondly, I have just discovered all of the ideas that the world is going to end and that multiple groups of ancient civilizations predicted the same exact date of this happening. I feel that the egg is fragile like the earth. I need to research more about this subject to make it work but I think it might be a stretch and me trying to inject more meaning into something that doesn't really need it. So scratch this idea..... for now.
Ill be sticking with the first idea that I explaining and trying to represent it as many different ways as possible. I am not dropping the ideas i started with either. I am going to continue growing the idea and sketching of the original images i had to develop this idea so maybe i can go back to it next semester.
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