CONCENTRATION
My concentration stemmed from an afternoon looking through old pictures of my family. Each picture I found touched different parts of my memories, and took me back to some of my earliest memories of being a child. Everything that happened to you as a child seemed so important and life changing and that’s what I wanted to convey in my concentration. I wanted to focus on the life changing moments within a family, such as births, deaths, and day to day realizations of parents and kids.
EXPLORATION OF CONCENTRATION
For my concentration I wanted to represent an important time in someone’s life in every piece. I wanted the focus to be on the subject or person and not on the memory as a whole so I chose to keep backgrounds minimal. I created a fading effect around many of pictures to represent the fading of a memory because of a major change, this can be seen in images 6,7,9, and 12. For example, image 9 is of me and my older brother as children; I wanted to represent how fast time passes as we are both nearing the end of our childhood. There are also two pieces containing two subjects; image 7 represents death, and image 9 represents birth. Image 7 depicts my mother and her father on her wedding day, before he died soon after. Image 9 also represents the last birth in my family and the start of a new life together. Lastly, comedy was another minor theme I wanted to include. I grew up in a very quirky family, and we always face hardships with the right amount of humor. Image 3 was taken before my uncle, the subject, had a stroke and suffered from nerve damage as a result. He was always a very energetic and happy person even through a very hard time in his life.
My concentration stemmed from an afternoon looking through old pictures of my family. Each picture I found touched different parts of my memories, and took me back to some of my earliest memories of being a child. Everything that happened to you as a child seemed so important and life changing and that’s what I wanted to convey in my concentration. I wanted to focus on the life changing moments within a family, such as births, deaths, and day to day realizations of parents and kids.
EXPLORATION OF CONCENTRATION
For my concentration I wanted to represent an important time in someone’s life in every piece. I wanted the focus to be on the subject or person and not on the memory as a whole so I chose to keep backgrounds minimal. I created a fading effect around many of pictures to represent the fading of a memory because of a major change, this can be seen in images 6,7,9, and 12. For example, image 9 is of me and my older brother as children; I wanted to represent how fast time passes as we are both nearing the end of our childhood. There are also two pieces containing two subjects; image 7 represents death, and image 9 represents birth. Image 7 depicts my mother and her father on her wedding day, before he died soon after. Image 9 also represents the last birth in my family and the start of a new life together. Lastly, comedy was another minor theme I wanted to include. I grew up in a very quirky family, and we always face hardships with the right amount of humor. Image 3 was taken before my uncle, the subject, had a stroke and suffered from nerve damage as a result. He was always a very energetic and happy person even through a very hard time in his life.