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.