I love Alt Process. All of the processes we did in class worked well for me (aside from Liquid Light…). I would like to continue to try Liquid Light (maybe next semester) and hopefully come to terms with it. Overall, I’m pleased with the works I produced in class this semester. My body of work is kind of all over the place because I’ve always been one to take on a variety of interests (even if I was told to ‘only choose one for now’) and never settling on one particular thing. Sometimes I see this as a good thing because I’m constantly coming up with new ideas or new subject matter and am seldom bored but on the negative side, it makes coming up with ONE final project difficult. On that note, the few final projects I’ve been working on are cyanotypes of my mother and father when they were around mine & my brothers ages (17-21ish) which I’m planning on installing on the wall in cheap frames. I bought some wallpaper from OP shop which will be a sort of ‘frame for the frames’. I want to play with the idea of family photos but in a way that familys normally don’t portray themselves in a photo to be hung on the wall. For example, some of the photos I’ve chosen are images of my dad pretending to smoke 5 cigarettes and one of my mom holding my dad’s shotgun. Photos prior to bearing children which some may call “them good ol’ days”.
Another series I am currently working on I refer to as “Dead Shit”. I printed some of the images that belong in this category as my Palladium and Kallitypes. I wrote about this project in an earlier post, so I won’t repeat myself.
Lastly, I also have a glassblowing/photo project I’m working on (which is due tomorrow..). I made solid clear spheres of glass and took photos of places and objects through them as a way of showing a distortion of reality.
