This was a website I made about a year ago in Interactive Design. I really like website layouts that are composites of images so I tried it for myself! I’ve kept all the hand-outs related to photography and many of them – especially the developing instructions – have frequently followed me into the darkroom while developing so I used the back as the content area of the website since the splashes of developer created quite a nice texture. Everything I used to create the site were textures/papers I had around the house… and, of course, the film reel and red filter are photo supplies.

“Alice”, or “The Weird Culminating Events in Dreams”… I’ve often found myself having dreams that are similar to “Alice in Wonderland”, and actually long before reading the book! This was part of an assignment in my Photo 1 class about capturing the surreal and the dreamlike, and I decided to focus on dreams, and the events that usually occur in my own dreams. I decided to describe the events in “Alice in Wonderland”, but also to make them “choppy” and seemingly unrelated since dreams often switch from one place to another without seeming to follow much of a logical order.

And while on the subject of dreams and “Alice in Wonderland”, I will mention the strangest thing that ever happened to me in relation to dreams: It was a reoccurring dream of an adventure that led to climbing a staircase in a large house that looked exactly like a staircase I climbed after going through a hidden door at the Ottobar… and I discovered the “real life” Ottobar staircase AFTER I had the initial dreams!

Down the Rabbit-Hole

Waking in a Dream

No Trespassing

Fountain

Finding the Way

Suddenly, a Tea Party!

Under the Table

Waking Up

Déjà vu

This work later inspired a short film by the same name!

The body of work I generated in my Photo 3: Alternative Processes class where we discussed and experimented with different photographic techniques. I found that my favorite technique was applying developer with a paintbrush which allows you to create truly unique photographs!

Final for Color Photo 1 – These images were a collection of textures of objects that I pass by/see every day. I wanted to take tiny chunks of these objects away from their surroundings and our preconceiving notions to show how interesting and detailed they actually are.

Documentary assignment for Time-Based Media. I interviewed Deana about her home birth for Kaya and spliced in scenes from the actual birth.

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Summer 2009 Final Project

My interest in architecture is very much based on lines, geometry, and perspective. However, there is also the alternate definition of perspective that I am interested in. Buildings represent a major part of any society’s history and place in the world. It is representative of people’s perspective on things and whether their history has affected them in positive or negative ways. It can also be an insight as to how a particular group of people feel about themselves or their way of life. In this way, there is a huge amount of personality in buildings and architecture type. However, it is additionally interesting to notice similarities between architecture in completely different parts of the world. Where ever I’ve traveled in the world, I’ve noticed similarities and differences with the place I’m in with where I come from and other trips I’ve taken. I’ve noted the differences of space, space between buildings and how it is often related to the space between people, both personal and psychological; how the people of different societies with different traditions react with their architecture, whether the streets are crowded or bare. Architecture reveals how much people have in common, and how little others do: and how those with the most in common could live the farthest away while those with the least in common could live under the same roof. It can also measure how much or how little a person has. How interesting that wealth is measured both in how new or how old buildings are and how perspectives in buildings change throughout the world just as the direction that the sun sets and settles on these buildings. Our perspectives are always different, perhaps even seen as warped in other cultures. That a person might have what we think is nothing and live in a shack but feel as though they’ve been blessed. Whereas another person who we think has everything and lives in a huge mansion may feel like a prisoner is his/her own home.

Lastly, architecture is also a huge indication of how supportive an area is in the arts. It cannot be especially indicative of whether a place has artists, but simply how much input they are able to give and how much they are able to affect their society. After all, a place that stifles creativity does not and cannot survive in a world that becomes more reliant upon using the creative process in problem solving and in considering the world at large as well as our future in it.

I’ve started putting together some of my older projects and bodies of work to re-upload to the site. So if you’ve already seen some of this work before now, that’s why!

This project was about people’s special spaces and the things they choose to put in those spaces. How they’re arranged and displayed is also of interest to me. Many of the items were things I often associate with specific people and how I see that they collect and arrange their personal effects and objects. It helps to notice these things in relation to the person who owns them to see that the neat and organized are not always as they seem and that cluttered and chaotic is not always bad. The things we choose to keep and how we choose to keep them can become an indication about us and the people and things in life that we really treasure.