Yesterday
I met with Eduardo
Angel for a portfolio review session. I
brought him my current work on my dreams, and also the projections I did last
quarter. It was very refreshing to get insight from someone that didn’t know
me, and now I realize I need to practice speaking about my work, and how to
answer efficiently. He asked really good questions and gave me good sources to
look at.
I
had decided to focus my surroundings in the forest/wooded areas because they
are explained in theories as an unconscious realm that is not kept by man. Eduardo told me that the images could be
mistaken for being lazy because they looked similar. I need to use the forest
in different ways, make the presentation different, and make it attractive so
that the content could be approachable.
Even though I shoot in different states, and cities, I chose areas that
looked similar, but could be mistaken as me shooting everything in one
afternoon. He gave me credit for not having them look cliché with vignette and fog,
which was nice, but suggested movement may be the best way to do this project. We
talked about if my images were in a gallery in Boston, and I was not around to
explain it, what would the images say on their own. What I showed him would not
be interesting enough for people to want to walk up to, and that’s what I need
to change.
Once
he saw my projections, something seemed to click for him that I never
considered. He started to connect my themes and essentially said they were the
same project just a slightly different approach. In both series I am using the
present, and inserting the past, or a fantasy somehow. He gave me the suggestion
to project my dreams back into the spaces, to make them stranger so that they
become fluid. That’s just a little of what we talked about, and from all of the
suggestions I have a lot of decisions to make before next Thursday. I feel a
lot better about my project in general, and now I have a more concrete approach
to solving my conflicts.
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