Project 6 - The moving Image

The Moving Image assignment was to show meaning though a video, not just a single frame.

My goal was to show more about myself, and to introduce chaos to a more banal of subjects. Shoveling.
While shoveling snow atop an obscenely large snow pile in my yard, I introduced my dog as another shovel of snow, and then myself - representing that it is not only the snow that I am shoveling onto the pile, but for the time I spend on such a monotonous task, I shed sweat and my own time on top as well. What difference does it make piling on a dog or a human? Snow has far more importance than any one creature, as it is the most important thing on the planet - frozen and trapped in ice - however it is immortal. My interaction may have hurt my stomach, but the snow did not feel a thing.

That snow will be snow every year until the world stops turning, and I will have to keep shoveling it. I will only be on the world long enough to shovel it away from myself - and when I am gone, someone else may choose to pile it up.

Project 5 - the constructed image

The constructed image is a scene that the one photographing has influenced or created in some way, or all together.

For my constructed images, I chose to create small scenes that showed a pairing of subject matter, that linked the two objects in each photograph - but in the linkage, the different characteristics of each paired item more strongly contrasted the item next to it.
Toothpicks clean your teeth, and q-tips clean your ears - both cleaning utensils, similar in size and shape, however if one were to mistaken one for the other, it could be ineffective, or devastating. While you may use a knife and a spoon during a meal, you cannot cut a steak with a spoon, nor can you eat a bowl of jello with a knife.

The differences between similarity is best seen through their unity. It's only in union -perfection- when an item's flaws shine the brightest.

Project 4 - The Landscape

The landscape is what you see in front of you. It is the foreground to the horizon, it is the cubicle surrounding the worker, it is the sea in front of the sailor. The landscape is what you see before you, in my case, banality.

I shot these images in a wide angle to represent the feelings I have over what my personal landscape looks like. Toning the images through a bleach bypass, dulling the colors other than blue, white and green, for which my eyes see the most, and making the pictures fuzzy, almost sickly - these were done to show my landscape through my own eyes. My attempt to show you what my landscape looks like, through my point of view, and with my own actions, in a way shows more than just my landscape, but it shows the landscape of me, myself being the subject, however only my hand and legs are shown. As I see life. The landscape of my landscape, which is myself.

The landscape of Will Tremaine.

Project 3 - Portrait Assignment

This assignment was to take portraits of a person in a variety of environments.
Well, I was in Africa at the time, So I only had the subject of my sister to follow. I had not intended on using her as my subject, as being my sister, I have certain biases about how she should appear.
These images show my sister in her small town Hokwe of Mozambique, where she is teaching English.
She is surrounded by poverty, and the environment she is in gives her no power, because the culture is patrilineal.
Yet she shows a bright smile whenever you look at her.

Project 2 - The Appropriated Image

The appropriated image assignment challenged my class to use work created by other people, and use it to make our own.
I chose to change Iconic photos in a way that would remove the importance given by society.
Instead of the dead boy in the kent state shooting, you only see a screaming girl and confused - if not bored looking- spectators.
Instead of seeing an image of water fountains marked with signs of segregation, you just see a man taking a drink of water.
Instead of seeing a man stand up to a a militaristic machine, a small parade of tanks is shown strolling down the road.

What meaning do these images have now. without the key elements for which they were important in the first place?

Project 1 - Self Portrait

The self portrait is a photograph of the artist, and allows him to use his own form for expression. I find that many artists tend to give their photographs far too much meaning for their given subject matter - taking subtle imperfections in their images and blowing them out of proportion, saying they are metaphors for their lives. I think it's obscene.

This photograph depicts myself, highly dramatized in front of blood spatter, and through the refection of a broken mirror. The objective was to portray myself in a way to show myself so obviously in a struggle, and in such a manner as to make it banal, almost satirical.

Old is new

This blog was intended to be an outlet for course material in my elements of fine art photography class,
So i am adding posts that show the work I have done in class for the last ten weeks.

Now you can be caught up on some of that I did this quarter.