Monday, February 9, 2009

Midweek Report.3

















I found an interesting article during Ideations class. It was about a man who collected vintage Halloween photographs, and these photos were so ghostly and brilliant.
At the time, when they were taken there were definitely seen as innocent and non threatening. Now, looking at these, the subjects, predominantly children, are awkward in stance and their masks are very simple, yet demonically haunting.
I would like to further my interest with these photos,and masks as well. It's interesting to me how the atmosphere of a photograph, an image, can change so dramatically when the context of time, and culture are changed and displaced.

Here are scans from my sketches of the 4 Narrative ideas towards class. They each explore something about a woman or man, traveling to or from Georgia to New York City or Krakow. I was focusing on a phrase that I found on one postcard that read "I may be a Peach, but please don't bite me". That set a narrative of self exploration or something of that nature towards the protagonist and other characters.
I decided to use a map of the New York City subway system for the presentation, and then I am going to make a line of colored thread or lines and objects to mark the characters' travels.

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