Friday, May 7, 2010

(In Progress) The Other Family Members

We have two beagles in our family and they have become important members of our family. To us, they have developed their own personalities and have become a big part of our daily lives and family get togethers. I decided to include some portraits of them into my assignments this semester because they really have become an extension of our family, or rather, the other family members. I will continue to photograph them because they come out interestingly, probably because most of the time dogs are unaware of a camera and the photos are candid.











Beginning Photography

These are an assortment of photographs that I took for assignments in Beginning Photography. I am hoping to take each of these in new directions, to expand on them and create an assortment of different series.




































































(In Progress) The Alternative Canvas: A Documentation of Messages Around Iowa City

These are a few photographs from my final in Beginning Photography. I will soon have the rest of my images up on the blog. I am interested in the objects that we often pass and take for granted, and the canvas they become for some individuals. I hope to expand upon this even after the class comes to an end, and hope to find interesting objects to include in this series.











Informal Portraits of My Brother: New Father and Family Man





































Series of Family Portraits (Still in Progress)

I enjoy taking photographs of my family and feel that it is important to take both formal and candid photographs of them. I think that this series will be a constant work in progress. Once I have collected enough images, I may look into breaking the pictures into different series, though I am not sure what those would be at this time. I thoroughly enjoy photography, and enjoy photographing all different subjects, whether it be my family, objects that interest me, other peoples' hidden messages scattered around a town, etc.







































Self Portraits- Beginning Photography







Thursday, May 6, 2010

Sculpture I Final Project

For Sculpture I, we were assigned to create a life size sculpture of ourselves with chicken wire and then were to cover it and create ourselves with any desired medium. I have been through serious family issues pertaining to life long illnesses and cancer. I chose to wrap myself in fabrics from home, and to hold myself together with buttons because of the meaning it has to me both as a young woman pursuing a career and her own life, a granddaughter, daughter, sister, aunt, girlfriend and as a human being. Humans are very fragile and it can take one illness or accident to make us fall a part. I chose the fabric and buttons because they are also fragile and can come unwrapped with the littlest mistake or happenstance.