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My experience with the photograph, “Graves”, was one primarily of self-reflection. My immediate thought when I first saw this picture was of my grandfather who passed last year. His death was the first in my life of someone I was very close with and it forced me to consider how I conceptualize death and its utter finality. I have no religious beliefs and no belief in an afterlife, so I’ve only had the option of thinking about death from a biological standpoint. Unfortunately, this hasn’t brought me much solace. Because of this, the idea of death has always been a wonder of mine, sitting silently in the back of my consciousness until I have reason to consider its greater implications.
With this thought it mind, I decided I would like to express my experience attempting to conceptualize death throughout different points in my life, some of which I’ve reached and some I haven’t. The series of photographs I’ve made are of individuals of increasing age with Graves positioned in different areas of each scene. However, the photograph, Graves, is always out of focus to represent two concepts. One, that my concept of death is not fully focused, and most likely won’t be for the majority of my life. And two, that death is not the subject of my focus on a daily basis but rather when an event, like a death, occurs that forces me to consider it again. While I wish that through this project I was able to develop a more concrete concept of death, it did spur conversations with others about the topic. This has helped me to remember that conceptualizing death is a nearly universal struggle and is not a phenomenon whose questions are easily answered.
This is an A2 observational drawing study I completed using fineliners, ball point pens, posca pens and India ink.
The aim of the image is to prompt self reflection.
I chose to use a combination of media to challenge my mark making ability, by using media that behaved differently, I would be forced to use a particular technique to best use it in creating a realistic interpretation.
It's not very often that I'm in the photo since I'm usually the one behind the camera. I was using my husband as a guinea pig the other night while I played around with the flash and had to laugh when I realized that I'd caught myself in the photo too.
• Self Reflection •
So yesterday I had to come to terms with the fact that the trip was over. I'm still processing every sight I've seen, internalizing the experience. I realized exactly how much growth I've experienced in such a short time, and to reflect on the images I came home with is a huge deal to me. I've got so much left to share, and I hope you'll enjoy living vicariously through my experiences.
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(July 25, 2017)