Inverts and Flipped Photos

        

Additions 

 

Gifs of each photo

New photos created into Gif

 M&Ms 

Mini Oranges 

Windows from fall semester 

 

A continuation

With these compositions, I continue developing my "space between words" series, where I overlay handwriting from the journals onto photos of daily life.

Prologue to the 72 hours

My original plan was to take a book that focused on travel and being in a place for 72 hours (weekend-type trips that are more attainable, or not really trips but the mindset of looking at the place you are in with a different approach/emotional lens) through the entry creation process. From the idea to the concept to the proposal. From there I would start the whole design process as well as a collection of needed imagery and start on writing.  After the last class and John stating that essentially everything is a trip or a journey, it made me think of the I’d a little more holistically about the project and all the parts that will make up the whole. 

All the little things one does throughout the day, week, and month that lead to these little journeys can be documented, as they are the prologue and an essential part of the journey. Without all this beginning material, the final concept would most likely feel hollow and rushed.

I think all this additional content will allow me to make smaller books/volumes that will feed the final book/compilation and then some. I would rather have extra vs. feel like I’m compromising with design or content within the final piece.

I will have to rethink the way I had planned to shoot the images. I do have to take others’ privacy into consideration while finding a way to document. Originally I was going to not use a phone/point-n-shoot digital, but this may be the least intrusive way to document.

Mundane daily journeys:

• Breakfast

• Dog walk

• Walk to class

• Commuter day (train/school drop-offs and pick-ups)

• Shows/concerts

• Errands 

• Art days

• Comp title research day

• Date night

• Lazy day-in

• Karting day

• Track day

• Bike sponsor day

• Training day

• Competition day (how to document???)

• Car day

• Workday (remote)

• Workday (?NYC office?)

  
  

Any of these can be visited as a series of photos/writing/videos.

Should be more than enough to feed into smaller book style/design exploration leading to the final book(s).

Poems, Quotes and Phrases

I have been searching for inspiring quotes that relate to the topic of the butterfly effect. Some cover the subject head on explaining exactly as it is while others touch upon it a little more deeply.

In order to go further, I would like to find and/or create visuals that match the quotes/poems I found. I would also like to find more phrases and quotes.

Phrases

• Fork in the road

• If then, what?

• This or that

Quotes

“A fork in the path: one way leads to an image of the world as a book, as a riddle, written in code, each occurrence a presage and glyph of the whole. The other way leads to randomness, mere chance, forever beyond our grasp, casting a shadow of nihilism on an accidental universe. Either way, theology is unavoidable. But in the latter case the language is geometry and statistics, while in the former it is luck and power.

Or is that backwards?

A fork in the path: one leads to, well, not clear, but along the way we dismiss accidents without ado.

… were I superstitious, I should see an omen in this incident, a hint of fate… Of course, I explain the incident as an accident, without further meaning.”

– Sigmund Frued, Psychopathology of Everyday Life

THEORY OF THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

January 1970

Dick Allen

Another world lies tangent to our own—

where everything is whackeyed. You

wear purple skirts’ you leave

the dustcloth on translucent shelves;

the sun

is slightly green.

I sculpture wood and plastic, talk

about the rain.

You take

swigs from bottles of intense champagne.

To everything there is

“A touch of strange.”

you’re walking down a lamplit street and in your place

the woman I embrace

writes strange lovephrases on my cellophane

skin. 

The worlds

slide in and out. They look 

like time-exposure pictures of the moon

passed through eclipse

or our child’s bronze

toy of spiral rings

resting at the bottom of the stairs.

And there’s no stopping this

constant alternation of ourselves—

no steady state.

One moment you

are X, the other you’re X-I.

Only in your death

when both your bodies lie

stupid and nonplused as iron machines

will you be

like those

who live in one world, spend

their lives explaining why they cannot change,

hanging portraits in their oval frames.

“Every rejection, every disappointment has led you here to this moment”

• Waymond (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Comic-Con Heart Collages

Throughout these heart collages, I have played around with scale and color on the heart pieces that contain an image. For the color in these collages, I have played around with duotone colors  based on some of the colors from the flower petals. When it comes to scale, I have also played around with cropping images, so that some of the collages would show less literal interpretation of people.

Graffiti Boxes

"Graffiti" Boxes

(This is where I will post my "Graffiti" Boxes throughout the semester, they will all be scanned to be printed, and then built when displaying or photographing the "villages.")

(Froot Loops - January 29th)

(Mage - Feb 6th)

(Lovely - February 15th)

Graffiti Houses

 "Graffiti" Houses

(This is where I will upload my "graffiti" houses during the semester, they're cardboard houses fully designed, built, and "graffitied" or decorated by me.)

(After getting a few made I will photograph them in the studio, all will be photographed in the studio by the end of the semester.)

(1st House, January 28th)

(Second “Graffiti” House)

Week of Feb 6th

(Third "Graffiti" House)

Week of Febuary 12th