Today we were given our final chance to get all of our Electric Vision project done and out of the way.
Wednesday 16/2/11...
In the morning we talked about our Electric Vision projects and how we found it. Everyone in the class seemed to like my work , and they gave me some good advice on how I could improve my work. We spoke about the size of my work and how big I would be able to make it if I was to get it reprinted. This is something I have taken on board for when I print this piece of work for my portfolio.
Today we were also given the project brief Senses which was a live project for the Fujifilm Student competition.
http://www.fujifilmstudentawards.co.uk/
I decided that I was going to use a film compact camera.
I was thinking about what sense I wanted to explore. I decided that if I just used vision that it wouldn't be the most imaginative thing in the world . But I started to think about what vision is.
My original idea was to look at my little cousins point of view. He is 5 years old and so he view of the world and his surroundings would look very different to what I or someone older than me would see.
However , due to other commitments I have I decided that that would not of been a very good idea and I would of be very limited in what I could do.
So I decided to put a different spin on it. I loved the concept of looking at the world from someone elses point of you . So with this in mind , I decided to use my dog.
No one really knows what a dog thinks about when he looks at things. Who's to say they actually know what their dinner is or what they think when they see their leads, or humans for that matter.
With this in mind , I decided that I wanted to keep my photographs very abstract, so that we as humans can barely tell what the image would be , and this would in turn replicate what I think a dog might see.
Friday 18/2/11...
Today I started looking at research for my senses project. I decided to look at the work of Uta Barth.
I have seen some of Barth's work before, and I find the concept that she worked with very interested, also linked very well with the project I wanted to undertake.
This is one of Barth's images that she has taken with the theme of peripheral vision in mind.
Peripheral vision is what we see out of the corner of our eyes , it is not in focus as we are not staring directly at it , however we still see whats there.
Uta did a series of images looking at this concept which I find fasinating. I love the thought of her trying to replicate something so complicated as our vision in to something as simple as a photograph.
When we look at images like this it makes us feel very uncomfortable because as much as we try we can't focus on the image.
I like the concept of this idea a lot , and it is quite a lot like the work I want to produce.
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