I thought about this project for awhile, and I cannot convieve a way to express my thoughts for my project other than to list what my pages will depict/represent...I'm still struggling to find a theme.
My project will be in book form, and will be placed in an old Tomokan (Rollins Year Book), I chose this to represent where I am in life, and express my thoughts and memories through photography, while also relating what memory is. I decided I will not be in any of the actual pictures, but would like to be the one behind the lens on this one; but still depicting through some of the different types of memory my 'views' on some things.
Page 1: Collective Memory- Historical/cultural. This page will actually be viewed from the cover, as I plan to create a window form the cover to this page. I want to create an old polariod picture feel to this page, but having the image inside the whit border be an over with a hot coil to express the notion of collective memeory; we may not have actually touched the orange coils but we all have "learned" not to.
Page 2: Memory and Testimony- Picture of a brain with pin points that all say "memory" to express that memory is not one section of the brain, and it is for that reason that when memory is called upon it is often faulty. So to express this, I want to place sentences around the image saying "He had on a green shirt and red pants" and another "He had on a red shirt and green pants" or something along those lines.
Page 3/4 (spread): Flashbulb Memory- I haven't quite worked this one out yet, but I am thinking about finding a picture of someone in profile, and place them on the page so it appears that they are looking at an image, and then having related pictures seem to stream through their mind. I haven't thought about what the images will be, or what of my values I want them to represent....
Page 5: Trauma- I want to find an antiquated picture and burn holes through it, and stain it, and maybe in the holes put different images- like how we superimpose our memories as a means of self defense. Again I haven;t thought about what types of images, but maybe something will come to me when we get to the taruma readings.
Page 6: Socialization and Identity Formation- I'm thinking for this one of doing a maze that leads to an image, potentially doing a commentary on materialism, having various shoes, purses, etc in the maze and then having the "solved" end be a famous advertisement.
Page 7/8: Memory/Time/Perception- I havent decided where I want to go with this one. I either want to do two separate pages where one page has an image and the second page has the same image that has been altered, a "One of these things is not like the other". Or I want to do a page on optical illusions for perception. I may combine the two and make this two sepereate pages, I am still up in the air. The third thing I thought of was to take an image and purposefully put in ont the pages in sections, where every section progressively changes what you see in the image-- finding said image I feel will be super difficult.
Page 9: Persoanl Identity- I am going to construct this one and have a photoshoot, simply because it will be impossible to find. What I want is to take a photo of someone looking at a picture standing in front of a mirror, but to have their face in the mirror only reflect the image they are looking at (to use that pen technique we learned). I do not know what the image is, but I think i will leave that up to whoever I ask to pose for me, so that its more authentic.
Page 10: Digital Networking- having an image of a camera in hands, but in the LCD screen have images/collage of images depicting technology and instantenous living (times square, etc).
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