After choosing ‘We are Merely Here’ for a title, I came up with a quote which I feel sums the project up perfectly – ‘What if we destroy nature the way we destroy ourselves’. It ties together the human and nature link as well as exploring mental health. When suffering with a mental illness we …
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Time-Lapse – Second Attempt
The second attempt at a time lapse went more successfully. I set up my camera so that it automatically took a photo every minute, and waited for the ice to melt which took a total of 10 hours. I then put together the 594 photos to create a time-lapse. The transition throughout the video is …
Time-lapse – First Attempt
I created a time-lapse showing flowers frozen within ice and the effects of it melting. My first attempt at the time lapse failed for multiple reasons. I took a photograph every 5 minuets until the ice had melted, however this was to much of a gap and the end result looks jumpy. I also shot …
Flowers in ice – Test images
After photographing the flowers frozen within the ice with the intention of comparing it to the image of me in a similar setting, I decided to photograph the flowers once the ice had melted. I found it interesting that the flowers when out of ice and instead in water look weaker than they did before, …
Reflection – Test Images
Although I previously mentioned that I thought it may be interesting to pair a portrait image with a landscape one, especially when displaying them in a book, I have decided against the idea. After asking a number of people which option they thought worked best – Option 1 (both portrait) or option 2 (portrait and …
Test Images – Flowers In Ice
After producing the image of me looking like I was trapped and frozen I decided to recreate it with flowers. I wanted to compare the two – comparing self portraiture with nature, and when presenting these images would pair them together. Linking back to the title of the work ‘We are merely here’, I wanted …
Test Images – Frozen/Trapped
I thought of emotions and feelings that come with suffering from a mental illness and straight away thought of the idea of being trapped. I created the images above by laying under water and placing perspex over the top. I wanted the perspex to be clear at first, but after it started steaming up I …
Coming self portraiture with nature
I previously looked at experimenting with piecing multiple images together to create an independent piece of art work. This was something that at the time I did find interesting but mostly looked at combining images with text, however I now want to look at this idea of combining nature with self portraits. Above is some …
Initial ideas
I produced a basic mind map to display my initial ideas for the resit. My previous project for me lacked meaning and therefore wasn’t a strong concept by the end. I think a big part of this was because it didn’t have a title. By giving it a title I feel that it gives the …
Final Project Resit
After failing the module, I will continue to work on the ideas I was already exploring however change and work on some of the parts of the module which didn’t work. However, due to Covid-19 and lockdown I am unable to shoot outside as much as I had initially planned when resisting this module and …
Final Major Project Kirsty Powell 