I was given 7 days to do 500 thumbnails based on two objects. An S hook and a woodworkers biscuit. I had 5 sheets full of 100 1″ x 1″ squares. Each page had a theme to explore. Anomaly, balance, contrast, rhythm and texture were my cues. I got it done, carpal tunnel be damned. It was a great exercise in pushing my observational skills and the ability to pick out interesting forms from mundane objects. A great step in making more interesting logo marks and iconography.
Digesting letterforms through making them by hand. Lots of patience and lots of starting over. It’s really good for me.
I lost my camera the other week. An old Nikomat FTN from the 60s that my mom gave me. It was the camera I learned to shoot on and I was really upset about it. I put up posters all over campus and low and behold it was returned to me. I need to shoot more, but I’m happy with where i’ve been taking my photography lately as a result of living in a new environment.
In Form and Communication we were given a prompt. We were told that we needed to make a project that made a statement about time. This was the only direction we were given and we were only given 2 weeks to complete it. Through the process of brainstorming I got to thinking about how my relationship with time is contextual. I could spend 20 minutes waiting in line for something and be frustrated and bored and it feels like an eternity, or I could be spending those same 20 minutes drawing or playing a video game and it feels like only a few seconds passed.
My goal for the project was to find instances in which the same amount of time was spent in situations similar to each other and to illustrate that our expectations play a huge role in how we catalog and describe these experiences. I decided to break them into mini narratives to help explain what possibilities could be going on within these experiences, and to maybe get the viewer to think more about their own expectations and relationships with time.
I’m seeing faces all over the place.