gracemcneely
Conceptual Series #1 -
The central idea of my series is moving on. This concept is close to my heart because three months ago, I moved away from the only home I had ever known. Moving on is about so much more than just stopping something and starting again new. It is about why you moved on. It is about how you came out of your shell, your comfort zone, and you tried something new, even if it was hard at first. When I first moved to Westfield, I was all closed up and I kept to myself. I was afraid that if I let go I would lose everything I had left behind, and not get anything in return. But when I finally opened up, I found out that it was ok to let go of the past, I just had to move on.
The work I did in my series demonstrates my ideas through my use of flowers. I first thought of using flowers for my final series when I was looking back at previous pictures I had taken. Searching for another photo idea to write down for my proposal, I decided that I could use flowers for moving away in a good enough way so I wrote it down, never expecting to actually use that idea in my final series. The longer I thought about it the more the idea of the flowers ”grew” on me. I started to think about how I had to open up when I first moved here to make friends and meet new people, and the idea of the flowers seemed to fit in with that just right.
The flowers in my images represent my emerging from my bubble of the past and moving forward. Every flower has to bloom, and to bloom they first have to open up. Every flower is beautiful in its own way, but to see that beauty they have to open up. For example in my first and second image you can see the center of the flower, this shows blooming into a new person. You can see the center of the flower in the picture, the center of the flower represents a my old life and the petals represent the ways that my life has changed and started spreading apart from that old life and that old person. In photos three and four you cannot see the center of the flowers only the petals. This represents all of the different reasons I chose to accept my new life and move on, and all of the ways I did move on and how they are all connected at the center of the flower, even if you can't see how they are connected directly in the image, you know that it's there.
In conclusion I know there are many things I could've done better with this series of photos, including making the photos more interesting, made sure the photos were clearer, and tried to mix it up from something that I haven't done before. But overall I am happy with my photos and the message that I am trying to send through them.
Conceptual Series #1 -
The central idea of my series is moving on. This concept is close to my heart because three months ago, I moved away from the only home I had ever known. Moving on is about so much more than just stopping something and starting again new. It is about why you moved on. It is about how you came out of your shell, your comfort zone, and you tried something new, even if it was hard at first. When I first moved to Westfield, I was all closed up and I kept to myself. I was afraid that if I let go I would lose everything I had left behind, and not get anything in return. But when I finally opened up, I found out that it was ok to let go of the past, I just had to move on.
The work I did in my series demonstrates my ideas through my use of flowers. I first thought of using flowers for my final series when I was looking back at previous pictures I had taken. Searching for another photo idea to write down for my proposal, I decided that I could use flowers for moving away in a good enough way so I wrote it down, never expecting to actually use that idea in my final series. The longer I thought about it the more the idea of the flowers ”grew” on me. I started to think about how I had to open up when I first moved here to make friends and meet new people, and the idea of the flowers seemed to fit in with that just right.
The flowers in my images represent my emerging from my bubble of the past and moving forward. Every flower has to bloom, and to bloom they first have to open up. Every flower is beautiful in its own way, but to see that beauty they have to open up. For example in my first and second image you can see the center of the flower, this shows blooming into a new person. You can see the center of the flower in the picture, the center of the flower represents a my old life and the petals represent the ways that my life has changed and started spreading apart from that old life and that old person. In photos three and four you cannot see the center of the flowers only the petals. This represents all of the different reasons I chose to accept my new life and move on, and all of the ways I did move on and how they are all connected at the center of the flower, even if you can't see how they are connected directly in the image, you know that it's there.
In conclusion I know there are many things I could've done better with this series of photos, including making the photos more interesting, made sure the photos were clearer, and tried to mix it up from something that I haven't done before. But overall I am happy with my photos and the message that I am trying to send through them.