Saturday, March 30, 2024
FML
Friday, March 22, 2024
ARTS 475: Week 9
My project is coming to an end. The last photo will be taken and added to the book on March 26th. That's exactly three months from when I started. I'm still on the fence about including text in a photo book. Also, the zines are coming along. They are going to be much shorter, and while they do include some of the photos from the "Photo Every Day" book, they are grouped together to show connections between themes that have been reoccurring in my work such as unhealthy eating, illness, medicine, and stress. The zines will be much shorter than the book containing only a handful of pages.
I'm going to display my photo book on a simple pedestal, and most likely have my zines in a stack next to it for people to take. I don't want to hand them out to people. That seems too... self-centered? I don't know. I don't really feel comfortable handing my "artwork" out to people. If people want to take one, they may.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with how this project has turned out. It's the last few months of my life documented in photo format. They're special to me, even though the subject matter captured within them gets pretty dark.
Friday, March 15, 2024
ARTS 475: Week 8
Friday, March 8, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
ARTS 475: Week 6
This is it. I’m not going to do the “NO TRUST?” bank sign project anymore. I do not make sculptures, and I don’t have an interest in making sculptures. I picked that idea as I wanted to use that sign for something, and I liked the imagery of stuffing a mattress with cash.
But I don’t really care about that idea.
I started this semester with a goal in mind. I wanted to make a zine. I wanted to take a bunch of photos every day and use them to tell a story about my life. Be a bit more personal.