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Changed my subject to household items.
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Artist: Ursus Wehrli
Title: The Art of Cleaning Up
Date: 2013
"The modern world can get messy. Fortunately, Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli is a man of obsessive order, as he demonstrates with eye-catching surprise in The Art of Clean Up. Tapping into the desire for organization and the insanity of über-order, Wehrli humorously categorizes everyday objects and situations by color, size, and shape. He arranges alphabet soup into alphabetical order, sorts the night sky by star size, and aligns sunbathers’ accoutrements—all captured in bright photographs sure to astonish even the pickiest of neat freaks. "
Gained some inspiration from this series to further inform my own. I want to look into flat laying more items and the idea of sorting and arranging things in a visual manner.
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I looked at personal belongings, more specifically items that people have to carry with them whenever they step out of their house. These items were more easily obtainable compared to my previous shoot and it is interesting to look at the similarities and differences in items, and how our belongings are almost like an extension of ourselves and a reflection of our personalities and sensibilities.
I like the idea of flat laying the items because it prompts a more analytical view, however I still feel that there is more to be done or including in the photos themselves to make them more interesting visually.
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Looked at personal belongings and things people found valuable, but I find that the photos lacked something and it was quite difficult finding people who are willing to bring their precious items for me to take photos of either because they don't live at home where their stuff are located or the items were too precious for them to bring out.
I will be exploring a different theme along the similar vein.
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Because so much time went into figuring out all the problems I had with shooting and then the colour problem I had, all my shots ended up lacking any proper direction and subject. But after some thinking I am going to turn it into something good by using them to create collages. These are result of my initial playing around. However at this stage I feel that I tried to blend the different parts together too much. I think leaving a straight edge between all the different pieces would make it more authentic to its remediation, and more true to the idea of the traditional cut and paste collages.
I do like the strange and slightly surrealistic compositions obtained. It suits the colours and effect of the film so I try to put more emphasis on that theme.
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Bought 2 rolls of film: one colour and one black and white. The colour one was unsuccessful as nothing showed up, while the black and white was better, however it was still overexposed as seen from the top most image. Adjusting it in Photoshop helped a little. I think I might have accidentally left the camera setting on B as oppose to N. I feel that using B&W definitely removed interesting aesthetic that we can obtain from shooting in film hence I will stick to colour film for subsequent shoots from now on.
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