Thursday post. 9.10.

Thursdays word of the week is 'literal.' I touched on this word slightly when I was posting on the critique blog and now I want to touch on it more. LITERALLY. Puns aside, I have wanted my work to be more literal for over a year now. I started by cutting up my photos in Photoshop and moved on to sculpting those early images with wood, paint and nails. I placed that creation into an environment and photographed the effects of color on the surrounding areas. With Paul's help, I realized the disconnect between the object I made and the area around it. We decided that it would be a good step if my materials connected more with the locations. In this way I would be taking the things that I found, that were either discarded by humans, animals, or left naturally and appropriating them and them re-entering them into their environment in the form of sculpture and photograph. I want to make things that relate to the environment on a literal level. I want to take things out of the frame and add objects in and weave them in and out of the picture. I want to continue shooting long exposures because I love the movement and what it does to shape and color. I don't want to completely turn away from neon colors, so I want to add pieces of my own creation to the things that I find. Like holograms and shiny fabric maybe. I love holograms and I was super into the hologram effect that my last piece took on. Scale was another thing that I want to influence and change. INTERESTING! I'm thinking really small. Get ready for next week because I think that word will be MOVEMENT!