Melting Snow

Another piece I experimented with. I am not in love with the alternating lighting in this piece because of the natural lighting. I lost power for eighteen hours and decided watching snow melt was a good use of the time. Snow is also a frozen form of water and I was curious how ink would move through the snow over time and as the snow melted. I am going to attempt this again but possibly in the studio with controlled lighting. The piece represents global warming with the melting of the ice caps and the rising of the water being sea level. The ink contrasts against the white showing polution and pure nature. The reverse in the GIF shows how nature will win and regrow or how humans can change their actions and reverse these effects.

I also decided against the circle pin idea. It was to display a pin I have but the shape doesn't fit in with the portrait layout I have been photographing so I reshot to match my other pieces. The photos have been taken. To GIF mode now.

I wasn't going to make a narrative, but...

... I made a narrative.

The book is going to be written in the perspective of a creature imagined by a human mind. This creature is trying to find ways to create other imaginative beasts like itself on its own. Here is the draft of the introduction written in their perspective.

I've also been adding characterized language to help describe the options on that long list, which is now being organized as a series of paragraphs and spot illustrations. Here is an example in progress.

book cover and book progress...

I am working on my book this week for the show, so here are some snippets of my cover, and spreads...My book is sectioned up as... 

- contact sheets

- landscapes

- conjoined forms

I am thinking about adding some of the vector art I have made as well...we will see where this leads to.

book cover (W.I.P.)

contact sheet page.

one spread of the landscapes section.

another landscapes section.

spread for the conjoined forms section.

Circle Gif

I bought myself a larger area to experiment with the ink drops. This piece is based on a pin I got during a college tour my senior year of High School. The top of the pin is green while the bottom, rising to the top is black. This pin represents the dying of the environment. I tried to create my own spin on this using my GIFS and the same colors of the pin.

Potential Layouts

Just playing with a couple different layout ideas for the show wall. I think the alien would be an interesting addition if it could possibly be done on vinyl or something similar so it could be a free floating shape as opposed to a rectangular image like the other photos would be. Not sure if there's a practical solution to that though. I think having a few (maybe 2 or 3) copies of the book below for people to look through would be good, so I can still utilize the narratives I've created without having to plaster all of them across the wall of the gallery. I think it lends better to the personal and "intimate" (for lack of a better word) nature of the narrative. Still wondering if it would be a good idea/how to execute placing text on the wall in addition to the photographs. Any feedback would be appreciated, since I'm not completely satisfied with these as they are now, but I figured it's a good place to start at least.

Note: The text for now is just place holder text to get an idea of where I might want to place the final chosen text later.

wall sketch for show...

Continuation 3/6

Possible book layout