So over here, there is a mid-semester review, much like the one that we went through just before I left Otago. Except over here it seems to be a much more intense process, although perhaps it seems that way to me as an outsider who isn't that familiar with procedure yet.
Anyhow, these three images are going to be my presentation for the review this friday. I have printed these images so that they are 40x21 1/2 inches in dimension. So there pretty big while not being so big that they cannot be hanged.
At this point in time i am not that happy with them. I do not really like where this work has taken me this semester so far. While this is only mid-semester for these guys it is under a month before i have to have show here and document it to submit for SITE09 and i am not that happy with the direction of the work.
I set out to capture these images that contained something that would look impossible, a figure suspended and floating above a surface, suspended in space and disloated fomr the space that they are in. I do not like how the space has become simply black, but it does make for an elegant space and one that emphasizes the figure within it. I wanted this over-all body of work to talk about a sense of isolation and a sense of dislocation...something which i dont know if these works do, the figure is certainly isolated but...i don't know its making me go kind of crazy right now. Feedback of ANY sort would be epic!
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christ alex, working hard much!!? good boy! so impressed, go look at this, as soon as i saw it I thought of you, although it looks like you may have moved on a bit....
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ps ill have a think and see if i can be a bit more constructive
Beautiful photos! of course, i wouldn't expect any less from you :p but you're right.. the sense of isolation and dislocation isn't too evident. I look at them and see a falling sensation, out-of-world/body experience. hmm kind of reminds me of that dream state right before you wake, you're falling in a dream and then suddenly jolt up awake when you 'hit' the ground.. except you never reach that point in these photographs.. you're stuck in the inbetween, with no real surrounding elements to position yourself in relation to. they work!! ..just maybe not in the desired way you intended. Hope this helps :)
Thank you both! Yea i kinda swing between liking these and hating them. I think i hate them because they dont do what i thought they were going to do, what they were supposed to talk about. But i like them because of the creation of a sensation, of a dream-like state and an out of body/world experience which is how i feel here some of the time! So i guess they work in that way...
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