MAJOR PROJECT - REVIEW, WORK IN PROGRESS

We had a review today on work in progress.  There were lots of interesting comments.  I haven’t seen or heard interesting stuff these months.  Missed Andrew’s Nostalgia talk but caught up with the recording, a very interesting subject as it relates to me - these days everything to me is nostalgia, not mentioning the time based medium photography, as everything around me, the whole world is a time based medium where I engage push and pull on a daily basis.  

Among everyone’s work, I found Andrew’s very interesting.  He took a roll of 35mm colour film, blow, blow, and blow out with lots of grain and deformed forms of subjects.  The more you zoom, the less you know, the more destabilising it gets.  He is questioning the truth of the medium and challenge viewer what you see is not what you see...  

I was impressed Sarah D’s project in Show and Tell, now she explained the philosophical level, the logos and superficiality.  She said everything combines everything, there is a relationship among everything, superficially probably.  Anyway...

Gavin and Silke both said, play with material, don’t commit yourself, do now, think later, you don’t know until you do it...  Quite like it, I knew it too, but sometimes my right brain was controlled by the left, which tries to get rid of all the uncertainty, I want to play with more uncertainty, don’t think, do intuitively...

Gavin commented Alan’s landscape idea which Alan claimed to have the obvious conflict and message in a good landscape image.  Gavin said photography is not that kind of media, it does not give explicit message as such, rather it offers subtlety, a relationship rather only than conflicts.  This way, the continuous engagement is created to reach a complex level.  The cliche in landscape is just offer those romantic iddilic edenic mood, but there is more that that as nature is not necessarily that idealistic...it was well commented, quite like the idea.  

I don’t think I get clear direction over my projects.  I do hear different comments.  Gavin explained the depth of the red background and I found quite interesting.  Silke shot my idea to draw a line in Shi Dai Jing Shen skyscape, which I quite agree.  Seems the challenge is how to present this 3 strands projects.  I need to decide if I shoot more portraiture, with lighting or not.  Then after that, I can just play around with materials, edit and presentation.