Pre-review Brain Dump T- 3 Days & Counting
So, with about 3 days until a lot gets decided, it's time for another patent-pending brain dump.
Here's some of what's been running through my mind lately. I've been re-interpreting some older work in Platinum, and I've pretty much come to the decision that it's the direction that I'd like to keep working for my thesis. Now, it may seem a bit early to be making decisions regarding that, especially since the review hasn't passed and I've got 2 years left in the program. Keep in mind that I've been creating a wide variety of work that it's time to start honing down. I've cleaned out the cobwebs and uncertainty, created a lot of strong work. If there's any place I'm going to get faulted, it's over too much of the work being overtly technical on some level. Possibly for making trees looking Goth too, but we'll see.
The other thing I've come out of from this is as much as I've enjoyed some of the veins that I've worked in this year, I want to work with people again. I've come to miss it, and two things in particular, creating reference work for a soon-to-be 3rd year MFA and documenting Exhibition Design reminded me of how much of my practice is revolving around that, and how I need to get back into doing it.
So where does that leave me? Between the meditative journey I've been on, and trying to understand various things about my photographic practice, and now a serious desire to work with people again, I've got stuff that I need to hammer out in review, but if everything goes according to plan, one of the veins that I'd like to work on this summer, which may start to evolve into my thesis project is something that is an intersection between two of my favorite photographers, Bob Carlos Clarke and Irving Penn.
It's an interesting intersection to be contemplating. BCC was an edgy Irish photographer interested in discovering and photographing the various sides of women. Some would be an interesting mix of classy and trashy, others would be menacing beauties who beg for your attention yet almost make you feel guilty lingering at the photo. Irving Penn is a quiet fashion photographer who packs an incredible level of introspection in his work. There is this sense of intimacy in his work, and it gets enhanced by his efforts to reclaim his work through printing it in Platinum. In many ways, they both remind me of this struggle to ride a fine line between commercial and fine art, and what it takes to be successful at riding that line.
My hope is simple. Use my own style to bridge theirs. Explore various sides to women from the elegant seductress to the trashy tart and everything in between. I'm hoping the review will help me resolve some of the technical wrestling that I'm dealing with in my head. I need try to push the technical to the back of my mind, and start focusing on the images.
I think that's good enough of a brain dump for tonight. Time to get some rest and get ready for tomorrow's fun filled adventures.
Night Peeps!
- CWM
Here's some of what's been running through my mind lately. I've been re-interpreting some older work in Platinum, and I've pretty much come to the decision that it's the direction that I'd like to keep working for my thesis. Now, it may seem a bit early to be making decisions regarding that, especially since the review hasn't passed and I've got 2 years left in the program. Keep in mind that I've been creating a wide variety of work that it's time to start honing down. I've cleaned out the cobwebs and uncertainty, created a lot of strong work. If there's any place I'm going to get faulted, it's over too much of the work being overtly technical on some level. Possibly for making trees looking Goth too, but we'll see.
The other thing I've come out of from this is as much as I've enjoyed some of the veins that I've worked in this year, I want to work with people again. I've come to miss it, and two things in particular, creating reference work for a soon-to-be 3rd year MFA and documenting Exhibition Design reminded me of how much of my practice is revolving around that, and how I need to get back into doing it.
So where does that leave me? Between the meditative journey I've been on, and trying to understand various things about my photographic practice, and now a serious desire to work with people again, I've got stuff that I need to hammer out in review, but if everything goes according to plan, one of the veins that I'd like to work on this summer, which may start to evolve into my thesis project is something that is an intersection between two of my favorite photographers, Bob Carlos Clarke and Irving Penn.
It's an interesting intersection to be contemplating. BCC was an edgy Irish photographer interested in discovering and photographing the various sides of women. Some would be an interesting mix of classy and trashy, others would be menacing beauties who beg for your attention yet almost make you feel guilty lingering at the photo. Irving Penn is a quiet fashion photographer who packs an incredible level of introspection in his work. There is this sense of intimacy in his work, and it gets enhanced by his efforts to reclaim his work through printing it in Platinum. In many ways, they both remind me of this struggle to ride a fine line between commercial and fine art, and what it takes to be successful at riding that line.
My hope is simple. Use my own style to bridge theirs. Explore various sides to women from the elegant seductress to the trashy tart and everything in between. I'm hoping the review will help me resolve some of the technical wrestling that I'm dealing with in my head. I need try to push the technical to the back of my mind, and start focusing on the images.
I think that's good enough of a brain dump for tonight. Time to get some rest and get ready for tomorrow's fun filled adventures.
Night Peeps!
- CWM