Articles Archive for Year 2008
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The theme of my portfolio is “leave no trace”. The images I’ve focused on in this set are all images pertaining to people and the traces, footsteps, influences, etc that they leave in the places they’ve been. I focused mainly on natural settings with the intent of depicting some of how humans interact with nature. In most parks and public gardens there are signs that tell us to clean up after ourselves and generally make it appear as though we have not been there; in other words, to leave these places the same as they were when we entered them. The fact is, however, the ability to control what mark you leave on any place is very difficult. From the tallest building to the smallest footprint, humans will always leave some trace of their presence.
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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.
