In Progress

For this project, I am trying to show everyday habits people( mostly negative), not only students, but everyone have.  Either stress related or just plain careless, these habits are inevitable. I would love to know what you guys think and what might come to your minds.  Any ideas on how to express this in the gallery would be welcomed.  I am planning on exploring more negative habits, if any ideas come to any of you, please share them with me!

The Crisis

In the article, Andy Grundberg defined postmodernism as "...a reflection of the conditions of our time."  To me, postmodernism is a way of swirling everything from the past, present and future all together into this one era of complete expression.

 Postmodernism relates to architecture, dance, language, and much more.  It challenges the tradition of photographic practice by photographers using their skills in photography to explore other elements of art.  It was also a way to mix mediums of art together as with painting in a video, or taking a picture of a sculpture.  There were many conceptions of postmodernism,  and everyone added their own twist to it which, ultimately, made it what it is.

Final Proposal

For my final project I want to explore the different bad habits of individuals and for what reasons they often seek comfort or security within them.  It has always been interesting to me, not just because I am guilty of some nail biting, but because of really the reasons behind the specific habits of people.

I was thinking of documenting all of the habits I can possibly come up with like: biting nails, picking skin, tapping pencils, shaking legs, smoking, popping pimples and plenty more.  Especially nowadays, students come up with crazy, yet now normal, ways to cope with stress in and out of the classroom.

Fiction

For my fiction project, I was trying to communicate the expected and unexpected.  In our lives, we expect things to be organized and sorted a certain way and how we associated certain areas of space and certain things to fill that space.  I wanted to show that view through my photographs.  

I started off wanted to take a photograph of one area and then take another of something that would look "right" in that one particular space that was nowhere near it and making it into one in photoshop.  Then, farther into the process, I thought to why not do the opposite?  I ended up taking the last few photographs of objects that did not make any sense in a certain space.  I ended up loving this

 idea even more.

Throughout the process of this project, I kept fighting with my self between both ideas and trying to figure out which would be the most interesting.  In the end, I chose to use both in a whole composition because variety is always key!