I woke up one morning, walked down the three flights of stairs in my dorm, opened the door and began photographing all the little things I could find. The first image I chose stood out to me because of the way the sun’s light shone from the leaves, and the vast expanse of this plant that made a kind of blanket over the soil. Then, a bunch of leaves all bunched together from one branch stood out to me. All the trees around me were green, but this group of leaves were a bright yellow bunch. I plucked each off the branch and began creating shapes from them, ending up with this spiral pattern. The next two images were inspired by the small fairy houses I used to build when I was little. I started looking for things that could be captured as a sort of “fairy playground” (ropes course to a home, leaf slip n slide). Lastly I noticed while looking around there was broken glass and discarded trash everywhere. I gathered a few small pieces, and created a small abstract tower. I wanted to call attention to these acts of littering and the effects this can have on the environment.
ECLECTIC, DIFFERENT LENSE
I like the sense of balanced yet almost unbalanced you get from looking at the stacked up glass shards. They look like they’re slippery and could fall off each other any second, especially the bottom curved pieces but at the top they look completely static. Great sense of the glass belonging in nature when it is manmade and as someone had mentioned during critique, very glasslike.
Your piece really catches the eye of the viewer because its not just one specific piece, its almost like a journey of pieces that tell a story. Most of us did one piece focused around a central theme but yours was something you did as you talk your walk around and that makes it very unique. It tells a story and inspires a sense of adventure which I really like. The way you took your pictures also played a big role in how the viewer perceives so good job with the angles and the amount of detail you captured.