cornwell conceptual series

Drowning

 

I have decided to make my conceptual series over the topic of drowning. I wanted to show the emotion that people go through in life when it doesn't go their way; showing that they "drown" in their own chaos. Whenever student does badly in a class or test, they feel as if they had hit rock bottom and just drowning in their own worries. Grownups in this world are going into debt and can't keep up with paying their bills and feel as if they are drowning in debt.

 

My work demonstrates the exploration of my ideas by showing pictures of the ideal image of drowning. My idea behind this concept is to show the emotion and the desperation. My idea for this assignment was having my model in water getting the impression that they are, or have drowned. I made the pictures not have much color because I wanted to express a sad mood. I had a light bulb and window lighting used to get dark shadows on the objects to also get a sad and dark mood. The image above and the other one like this in the fish tank show fear and being stuck. Sometimes when we have financial troubles or life isn't going the way we want it to go, we just feel stuck. The picture of the face out of water is showing that she looks dead. That she gave up on life and continued to drown till the end. The one picture with my little sister with the blurry water on her shows that is so close of getting out of her “drowning” phase. The one with her just laying in the water shows serenity. These pictures portray different aspects of depression.

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