Looking and Seeing Space (Introduction to Photography)

BRIEF: Reconsider the way you look and see. Using a camera you are asked to challenge how we make sense of the world. Using your camera, begin to use the photographic frame, carefully selecting, editing, exploring and revealing your SPACE. Through this personal response, discover reinvent and create a new SPACE. Begin to develop new wats if making sense of the world you have chosen. Consider: light, form, viewpoint, shape, simpliflication, dissection, occupation, repetition, time, magnification, movement, and begin to investigate reinterpretation. Enhance and challenge the audience's undersdtanding of the space.  

PROJECT IDEA: My chosen space was the spaces found in between the web of a dreamcatcher. I took the word space literally and discovered a new way of analyzing that space. The spaces in between dreamcatchers are very significant as the Native Americans believed that nightmares will be caught in them if they are hanged over your bed. Today dreamcatchers are not only used to catch good and bad dreams but to also help us understand them. The openings in the dreamcatchers are often viewed as symbolic of the changes that will occur in your life, so the space is important. I used black cloth as a backdrop ad hung the dreamcatcher onto my desk lamp to highlight the shape and form of the spaces.

Help!/Speed Dating Project (Concepts 1)

BRIEF: Create a survival guide/pack, secret handshake, song, performance, 2D or 3D, interactive or more traditional graphic solution. that will in some way help support another team through the first few weeks at Kingston. Your ideas must be based on the information the other group have written in response to the speed-dating questions. Remember to consider language and cultural differences in your solutions. Be surprising, innovative, smark and inventive!

PROJECT IDEA: This group was very family orientated so we wanted to encourage them to leave their real homes behind and make Kinsgston their new home and create families here. We wanted them to get out of their "comfort zone" literally as their answers during the speed dating were too traditional, safe and comfortable. We created shirts for them to wear which created the word FAMILY and had a hidden message saying GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE. They were encouraged to be flexible, be close together within a tight closed off space and work together to find the messages we had written. This enabled them to utilize all the attributes we want them to have.

HOME SUMMER PROJECT

BRIEF:
-What defines home for you?
-What do you love and hate about your home?
What is the difference between a house and a home?
-What are the little things that are said, written, methods of travel, public and private rituals, etc. that you consider to be a special quirky or even irritating feature of your home town/ village?
Devise innovative and appropriate ways to communicate your love/ hate feelings and present this in a form which itself relates in a meaningful way to the contents.

PROJECT IDEA: Since my home is bermuda I made sure I depicted all the amazing features, sights, creatures, sounds, events and even nature that makes up this wonderful island. This was done using water color pencil crayons; a vibrant way to exaggerate the colors through illustration and easily blends each feature together. On the other side of the amazing things that make up the island is an image of a gun which has smoke coming from it which says "feel the love" (bermuda's slogan). This is there to portray the raise in gun violence which has started to take place on the island and has not come to an end. I wanted to represent how many of our island's beautiful attribrutes are taken for granted and our slogan loses its meaning.

All of the Lights!

Experimenting with shutter speeds on my Nikon coolpix camera and a small torch light!

Experimentating with Graphic Design pieces (new to the game!)

BERMUDA IS HOME: I superimposed a photograph of me taken at a beach against a photograph of a lighthouse in Bermuda.  The combination captures the beauty and my love of the island.

HELLO BRIGHTON: Playing with the image effects of a photograph I took of a clock tower in Brighton.

BRIGHTON!: My recent trip to Brighton inspired this image.  I took a photograph of the pier and edited it with lyrics to one of my favourite songs Summer Breeze to create a nostalgic feeling.

COLORFUL: This design was created using a combination of typography and color.  Although the design is linear, the contrast is emphasized due to the juxtaposition of the lettering and the angular lines in the background.

CUT IT OUT: The desire to look beautiful makes you want to change different aspects of your face and / or body.  You may want physical features which you weren't born with, like blue eyes or fuller lips. Cut It Out serves as a pun for her to stop reconstructing herself.

FOREVER YOUNG: A photograph made to resemble an artist's sketch of a young couple in love.

EVERYBODY RUN BACK TO YOUR FANTASY: Photograph of Miami beach skyline taken while in a moving car.  The text is made to flow resembling the movement of the clouds.

GO: Another inspired piece based on the song GO by the artist Common.  Go Go Go Go Go Go On the Count of 3, Everybody run back to your fantasy.

EVERYBODY'S PLASTIC: This is my statement on photo manipulation.  With current image editing techniques, we are unable to determine whether someone is natural or fake / plastic. 

TYPOGRAPHY: Inspired by the contrast of the bright sunflower against the summer sky and my new found love of typography.