Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Nature's Artificial Sweeter



Natures Sweetner

Title of exhibition: Natures Artificial Sweetner

Proposed Date of exhibition: 2nd September 2010

Social Implications/ Theme of Exhibition: Global warming


I have chosen to this this piece as I want to communicate the social awareness anout the implications that global warming has within our world. In modern day society Global warming has become an increasingly debatable and controversial issue. Early spring arrival is just one of the many affects that global warming is having in our world, particularly within nature. Natures Artificial Sweetener, an installation piece has been designed to evoke social awareness to this overwhelming issue and portray a futuristic view of how nature will operate with the effects of global warming.

Natures Artificial Sweetener is an installation piece that is going to merge both the artificial and natural world. The concept will incorporate nature through the use of a barren tree on campus and the artificial with the use of PVC material sheets in the form of carnation flowers.

I am using a barren tree as my canvas which will infact represent a lifeless dead tree. Trees are a soild structure that tend to remain on this Earth even when they are no longer living. This will portray a futuristic vision of a sterile , lifeless society in the wake of climate change.

I have assembled carnation flowers out of yellow PVC material. . I have chosen carnation flower in yellow as it symbolises disappointment. A thought that I am trying to evoke from the viewer if nature is to head down this path due to global warming in years to come. I have also used yellow as it is a bright colour that will attract viewers to the installation piece. It is an colour representing optimism, energy and creative thought which is what is needed for viewers to get pro-active.

The installtion piece is a floral inverse piece so to speak having the flower arrangement reversed from branch to trunck.I have chosen to place the carnation flowers on the trunk of the tree and the start of the branches. They will be placed on this area to give a sense that the flowers are emerging up and covering the whole tree. The idea of the placement of the flowers is to show the growing and emerging take over that global warming is having with our natural world. I also chose to do this because I want to represent an upside down feel, an upside down way of nature which is what nature may become if we ignore the the Earth's changing climate.

A a bare tree situated amongst an outdoor eating area is the location for this installation piece. It has been decided to install the artwork there as it is a public forum and global warming is a public issue. It will hopefully will evoke thoughts, ideas and communciactaionn with the viewers.

This artwork will be installed before class on Wednesday 2nd September. It is estimated that the starting time will be 7am taking up 2 hours. The special installation need required will be the use of ladders to help install the piece within the trees.


Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Sodum, South Georgia

(Image courtesy of www.ironandwine.com)

Sodum, South Georgia is featured on Iron and Wine's second album "Our endless numbered days". It is another track that gives inspiration to making a short film. This song is a good representation of themes such as life, death, loss and time elapsing. Through its simplistic sound it has a strong country feel which is where I want to base this short film. I feel lyrically and musically there are so many avenues I can take with this track.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

To build a home


It is a requirement whilst studying Digital sound and video to create and shoot a short film as a final assessment. For my inspiration I will be using The Cinematic Orchestra's track "To build a home". This song which is beautifully composed also exudes a controlled element. The songs explores themes of love and loss through its poetic lyrics. It also explores the themes of living and death as well as escapism from the natural world.
These are themes I plan to look into whilst I go through the process of creating my short film. Another important aspect is the photography displayed on the singles covers. As this is a photography blog. I want to use still life photography within my short film. This will make it very me and incorporate some new works that I can explore. It always pushes me to explore new themes such as the ones above with my photography. The album photography has a beautiful warmth to it, with its natural components and organic colours. I want my short film to involve nature and the photos these covers display are inspiring.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

"My Special Day"



A View From My Window

All shots are a view from my bus window. It was a long and arduous 10 hour journey across New Zealand, but the beauty speaks for itself.



Sunday, May 30, 2010

Montage...


My friend Matt helped me out with this montage assignment I had. After a few trails he was able to perfect it and thus the end result.
Matt is a photographer too. We share alot of the same photography influences and ideas as well as being different in alot of ways too. Its always fun to share ideas for shoots and different photographers with him. Matt can be checked out on www.mattgp.com

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Over exposure...


I love over exposing to my own advantage. I mainly use it with my black and white photography. Editing elements such as the brightness, contrast and highlights is something I like to tamper with. I like to give the highlights within the photo a glow and darken the shadows. It really defines the photos black and white qualities within the image. With my subject matter I feel it makes it look gritty along with the added grain.