Concentration
This page is specifically for my AP Studio Art class at Paschal HS. A "concentration" is an idea a student comes up with and explores for the duration of the school year and ultimately turns 12 photos in to the AP College Board for review in late April. This is a showcase of my work towards my concentration this year.
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My concentration deals with the idea of presenting an image into a scene in an abstract way. The idea was to make the photos look as if the only way they were achieved was through the use of photoshop, but in reality no photoshop is being used. I have begun by using a projector connected to my laptop to project an image onto buildings or other objects to make the viewer really look at and think about what they are seeing. Your eyes are first drawn to the projected image, then to the scene around it giving it character and my own artistic take. All of the projected photos are previews photos taken by self as well.
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The first image is of an abandoned building in Downtown Fort Worth with the Trinity River behind it. Projected onto the front of the building is a black and white image of the skyline of Fort Worth that I took from the Lancaster Bridge.
My second image is of University Christian Church next to TCU. Projected onto the church is a photo of the church bell tower and courtyard on taken after it snowed years earlier.
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I chose to put the entire photograph in black and white as I think it better connects the projected photo and the building as well as providing more contrast throughout the image.
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My third image is of an old historic home just north of downtown Fort Worth. Projected onto what would've been the front door is a photo of the house two weeks earlier from a different angle during the day.
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My fourth image is of a building downtown and the moon to the left of it being projected upside down onto a piece of concrete on the edge of my yard.
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The building's edge lines up with the crack in the concrete and I chose the part of the concrete that had a curve to it so part of the yard is revealed in the corner of the image adding color to an otherwise black and white image.
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My fifth and sixth images are a series. Both taken of a construction site, I used different elements of the site, in the first the machinery and in the second a sign for the road.
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In the first I chose to project a contrasting scene of untouched land onto the machinery that is used to tear apart and destroy it. I took the projected photo near Lawton, Oklahoma.
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The second is of a "Road Closed" sign, and I chose to project a test image of the above machinery as it gives more insight into the "Road Closed sign.
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The below image that was projected was taken while hiking in Sabino Canyon in Tucson, Arizona. The moon is seen fading behind the mountain with the signature Saguaro cactus on the mountain side.
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The way the mountain was shot and the way the ivy on the wall grew, they lined up perfectly highlighted the mountain side and moon.
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Driving through Downtown Fort Worth I saw an old sign that was blank white and peeling in places. I pulled into the empty lot as I remembered my great grandfather's film negatives and thought they would be the perfect size and length for the sign. The sign offered a way to present the forgotten film strips back to an audience and with the peeling paint it added to the aging effect the film strip gives to the photo.
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The film strip is repeated as the projector was used to point at one portion of the sign until a photo was taken, then the projector was moved to cover the other parts of the sign. This is the only photo of the series where photoshop had to be used in order to stack the two images, but the way the film strip is presented in the image was still without the use of photoshop.
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