Identity Essentials

Body as a Site of Loss
     When the soul has lost something the body reacts to the emotional strain.  Shoulders are and important contribution to the look of confidence, but when they are drooped and the hands limp--ready for nothing--it portrays the broken heart.  Women tend to feel most vulnerable when nude and emotionally weak or drained.

Body as a Container
     A lot of personal insecurities in women come from media and society's skinny and virtually flawless women.  Women who have no need to change feel obligated to because of the constant pressure of the fake women portrayed as beautiful in the society.

Body as the Site of Conflict
     Women often feel like they are torn between their lover and their friends.  The struggle to decide, or mediate, created conflict within, as well as outside, the woman's body.

The Essence of Gender
     In a woman's life it is highly prioritized to find a lover.  Weather that be a man or another woman, it is something that most women long for and struggle to achieve.

The Role of Age
     The promised hand on a weathered and distorted pedestal portraying what she has to come or what she has already experienced.

Photography Blog

The purpose of this photo was to capture the fun being had at my birthday.  I always take an immense amount of pictures when anything happens to make sure the events are made able to remember.  I keep this photo because Josh, the subject, is my best friend and I am reminded to smile every time I see the picture because I remember that I am loved.  I chose the photo mostly because Josh is my best friend and this is one of my all time favorite photos of someone I know.

I am the photographer and Josh is my best friend.  Once you know the relationship between Josh and I it makes the photo more personal, and gives the smile that Josh has on his face a little more sweetness because he is smiling at his loved one instead of at a camera.  You see by the way Josh is the main subject and the reflection of the surrounding friends in the glass that I was interested in only Josh for this photo and he is most obviously happy to be the main subject.

This photo was intended mostly for Facebook and for my personal files.  I have a digital as well as a hard copy so I can look at it everyday without getting onto a computer.  This photo will be up for as long as it can be up so everyone can see my beautiful best friend.  I will most definitely remember this for my life because this was my first birthday in college with my best friends.

            The purpose of this photo was in the series of my Senior Photos.  I keep it because it was one of the better photos taken of me during the session.  I chose it because I figured the easiest way to find a picture of me taken by someone else was to look in my Senior Photos and I love this picture.  It was during my senior year and it will always be a reminder to me of the friends I had and the amazing time I had as a Senior and in all of high school.

            The photographer’s name is Cade Bradshaw and he was one of my good friends in my Drawing class Senior year and Photo class Junior and Senior year.  I was out of cash and he offered to take my photos for cheap and however I wanted them.  Knowing that a friend took this picture makes the look on my face less rude and more sarcastic and almost funny.  If someone I didn’t know took this picture it would take the fun out of the photo shoot and give this picture an aura of boredom and staged emotion.  The fact that a friend is the photographer gives the photo dimension and life.  You can see that Cade was giving me a hard time by the look that I’m giving him.  He captured me just as I was shooting him the “I hate you Cade” look.

            This photo was intended for my parents and online.  My parents wanted something they would be able to keep forever, basically, and Cade wanted something he could put online for portfolios and interviews.  I will definitely remember this picture for the day and the years it represents.

            I do not know this person nor why or where but the photo is by Chriz S. Wolf.  It seems to me that the photographer is the subject’s friend and is capturing a moment maybe of vacation or maybe of just hanging out for either his personal collection or online.  In the thought that the two are friends, it gives it a comforting feel to the photo rather than thinking that the photo was taken by a hired photographer which takes away the comfortability and gives it a staged and stiff sort of feeling.  This photo was on Tumblr, so I’m guessing the photo was intended for the online viewing aspect and a personal file.

Modular Madness

I started out with cigarette boxes and decided to switch to snuff cans because I had access to a lot more of those than cigarette boxes.

I ended up making something that resembles a "redneck windchime". Which I am totally fine with, I've already had several offers from people wanting to purchase it as a windchime.

I had 120 cans of snuff and a few different ideas.

I took some pictures of it set up at the WASH building but not on my camera or phone.  So I'm waiting on those to be sent to me.

I cleaned each can and drilled parallel holes on each one.  All of the Copenhagen ones went straight to the center line and I strung them with thick fishing line.  The thin fishing line broke straight off.  I took some really greasy thick wire and wired the other cans by fours in half circles and bent the ends around the fishing line to hold.  I put a wire in the end of each piece and wired it to a thick stick and hung it from the outside roof at the WASH building.

Photo Safari

8 Formal/Informal Textures, Patterns or Rhythms Translated, Relflected or Rotated.

 Corrugated Cardboard, formal unchanging repeating texture.

 Wooden fence, formal unchanging repeating rhythm.

 Wooden fence, formal unchaning repeating pattern.

 Jeans, formal unchanging translating/repeating texture.

 Mesh bag, formal unchanging translating pattern.

 Red Ribbon, formal, unchanging repeating pattern.

 Back of lanyard, formal, repeating pattern.

Taylor's hair, informal repetition translation unchanging texture/pattern

Human Dots

Cardboard Project

The project starts:

These will be the pinecone spikes.

This is the base

 This is another shot of the base

 This was my first idea for the pine spikes

 The subject.

I covered the base in this stripped cardboard to give it texture.

 The inside of the base

 The first attempt for the base

 Too tall.

Finished project

Better idea for the spikes. I ended up cutting slits in the stripped cardboard to fit the ends inside to make spikes.

Newspaper Tower

This is my newspaper tower.  Lets just say it wasn't exactly a success.  We had to try and get a cinderblock off the ground as high as we could using newspaper and glue.  I didn't think quick enough before I started.  I first started with a triangle shape at the bottom but I couldn't make it stable enough.  So I went with a pillar of newspaper painted with glue to make it strong and I ran out of glue, so the ending of my thought was pretty set back.  In the end I put it on the ground and it fell apart.  I should have planned more before I started!