1. What is the concept driving your thesis project at this point in the semester? Has your concept changed since the beginning of the semester? If so, describe the changes?
The concept driving my thesis project is the idea that just as we as humans have multiple components that make up our personalities, there are multiple sides to other forms of nature. Though you can view something in more than one way, it will still hold similarities to the other elements that make up its whole. (I tried to make this as contrite as possible, if I need to extend this, please let me know)
My concept has changed a bit in the sense that I am steering a bit away from saying that I am creating order from disorder. I am still doing this, but I am doing it in order to prove my point about there being many sides to one thing. I am trying to relate the aspect of the colorful and ever changing human to the things in nature and in life that only seem stagnant and always the same.
2. How has your process of experimentation and image creation throughout the semester expanded, redirected, altered, or tightened your concept?
My process of image creation has essentially stayed the same: creating four images from one image. However my process of capturing the images has changed: instead of taking an image and then zooming into it to explore and find an image to work with, I am now shooting with the intent of not cropping and keeping the image from the start. I have found that working with subject matter that I find outside (trees, clouds, decaying sidewalks, bark, etc.) is more interesting to shoot because I can find line and form by looking through the lens and formulating my idea while I am shooting the image. Now that I can somewhat know what the image may look like, I feel this process is more beneficial than the former.
3. How has your process of experimentation and image creation throughout the semester affected the visual aspects of your work?
Describe how the visual aspects of your project align with the content and concept of your project. Are there ways in which they seem contrary to your concept? How might you tackle this misalignment?
My process of experimentation has mainly been through the way that I capture the initial image and the type of subject matter with which I choose to work. I have decided that more natural imagery looks more appealing, as there are more intricacies that can arise from the type of line and form that I have come across. From this, the images as a whole have become more visually uniform. From working with more natural imagery I have found the images to be more intricate and aesthetically pleasing than the synthetic imagery that I was originally using.
The visual aspects of my project align with my concept quite well, I believe. From looking at each of the four images you can see similarities between them all and you can also see a difference between each of them as well. This reflects the idea of our multiple aspects to our single self and the fact that images and similarities can mirror between them, but at the same time, there are distinct differences between them. Nonetheless, they all come from the same one thing, so they are all essentially the same in that sense. I am not sure if there is anything that may seem contrary…I could be wrong, so if I am, please tell me! I would love to know so that I can be aware of it…
