Thursday, March 09, 2006
The Free Project
We had this project called the “Free” project. Now this class has like four of us who think in terms of making art as opposed to just taking pictures. I ain't knockin' those other folks. I just have some bigger, maybe unsupportable, ambitions. And for this project we, after our most recent victories, put on our “A” game. Joe worked out this soft sculpture/installation thing using cyanotyping and these weird alien stuffed animals with all kinds of Fruedian text etc. Zach made a movie using slides. Daniel, well, Danny boy did a kind a country porn thing. Now I helped most of these people work out their ideas so I knew what everyone was doing right?
So what did Mikey do?
Project #1: photos of ethnic people holding signs that had question raising statements i.e. an Indian guy with a sign that said, I am not a Hindu, a non smiling black girl holding a portrait of a pretty smiling white woman etc. Not as interesting in real life though, kind oa boring, kind a cerebral.
Project #2 photos of Nashville from my trip to the Ryman and this jack ass brought a view camera. It was like 10 degrees. Not view camera weather. I got six shots on my Kiev using 30 year old TMax 400. Six boring ass shots.
Project #3 pinhole self portraits while drinking liquor. I should not even need to explain why that didn’t work.
SO.
The night before class and the critique, I’m digging through my negs looking for anything, and I mean anything and I found it in spades. I believe Babs, the teacher’s exact words were… “poorly conceived and weakly executed”. C
What went wrong? More than is on this page and I that care to admit right now. Enjoy this work or don't. Babs didn't.
So what did Mikey do?
Project #1: photos of ethnic people holding signs that had question raising statements i.e. an Indian guy with a sign that said, I am not a Hindu, a non smiling black girl holding a portrait of a pretty smiling white woman etc. Not as interesting in real life though, kind oa boring, kind a cerebral.
Project #2 photos of Nashville from my trip to the Ryman and this jack ass brought a view camera. It was like 10 degrees. Not view camera weather. I got six shots on my Kiev using 30 year old TMax 400. Six boring ass shots.
Project #3 pinhole self portraits while drinking liquor. I should not even need to explain why that didn’t work.
SO.
The night before class and the critique, I’m digging through my negs looking for anything, and I mean anything and I found it in spades. I believe Babs, the teacher’s exact words were… “poorly conceived and weakly executed”. C
What went wrong? More than is on this page and I that care to admit right now. Enjoy this work or don't. Babs didn't.
# posted by Mike : 9:35 AM
