Friday, December 10, 2010

Response to Film

1. Everybody lives by a script. The script may be implicit or explicit. It may be recognized or unrecognized, but everybody has a script.

2. We get scripted. All of us get scripted through the process of nurture and formation and socialization, and it happens to us without our knowing it

In our film, 2:57, we followed the story of two masked figures upon their first encounter. I related this movie to the first two parts of Walter Brueggemann’s nineteen theses, as the movie was very planned and “scripted”. The characters are portrayed as puppet-like through their deliberately strange and akward body movements.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvrBmnWRTZw

Thursday, December 9, 2010

landscape


This landscape was taken at an apple orchard at the end of autumn. These large posts divide the different varieties of apples. This shot shows earth and sky, but also 4 people. The two people closest to the camera are my friends I went apple picking with, but the other two are strangers that walked by right as a shot. I put people in my landscape because I love to take and look at pictures of people. I personally find it very hard to enjoy photos that do not include people, because i think the human body is the most interesting and beautiful thing to photograph.
My earthworks and landscape shots are similar as they both include human bodies in relation to the natural world- earth (water) and sky. The landscape includes both posed and unposed humans, while the earthworks only contains one posed human. The earthworks includes the objects we installed, but the landscape also involves wooden posts that were also installed by the human hand, although obviously our earthwork object installations were much more intentional for our specific shot. My landscape and earthworks shots seem to be, overall, very similar.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Mask.



The purpose of wearing a mask is to portray something different than the real self. Maybe not something entirely different, but something extra. When this project was first assigned, the first question I asked myself was, “For what reason would you wear a mask?” When I reflected on this question, I found that the first answer that came to mind was, “to be more beautiful”. If I was to wear a mask, I would want it to be beautiful. But not the typical image of beauty- something more extraordinary, stunning, exceptional, that would set my apart from the people around me.
In the first photo, my body language, clothing, and even (what you can see of) my facial expression looks natural, relaxed, ordinary. But, the flowers blooming out of my face add something extraordinary. Irony is created through contrast in the second shot. (Flowers, growth, beauty V. dead vegetation, lifelessness, my facial expression.)