Photographs Evaluation 6/04/2017

I cannot take my work back to uni on the train, so i decided to experiment with photography. I bought a spot light and switched off all the lights of my basement to give this magical effect to my work. One spotlight and a pitch black room.

The photographs ended up beeing really interesting and even more interesting then the final piece, because it created some the illusion of the cosmos. If printed large, i think the audience will not see straight away that these are crystals and would then have a more interesting response to my work than beeing in direct connection with my work. The public is taken on a journey. It is interesting that such a microscopic work which is crystals could look like something as microscomic as the universe. In this way, it looked a bit like Gursky work, from the exhibition i've seen the water, the iceberg taken from the top, and the flower fields. All three pictures were verry abstract and looked to me like abstract paintings and something completely different to what it is originally, it took me by suprise when I got to read the label. The most striking one was probably the iceberg, it looked like a little mountain of flower or cocaine, photographed from the top, however it was a huge iceberg. I liked the relation with the microscomic and microscopic. Explored in a different way by the artist Michael John Hunter who created huge barbies (look previous) and photographed them so they looked tiny.

The photograph made the really stood out with the lighting, you could see the pink purple and blue shade, whereas on the actual thing it looked much more blue and unified. Furethermore with the picture, you could really feel the texture and the technique

I montaged my work into a gallery space, into a home detached and attached so everyone could see what it would look like in a home, and what my work really looked like.

Going back to my concept, I really like the fact that unintentionally the photographs looked like a universe because even though this might not come through my work and i accept that it may not be what everyone thinks of it. I feel like i have managed to "crystallise the universe", in this way my work was succesfull because I aimed to show a range of domains that humanity wanted to crystallise and what better way than freeze the entire universe. So nothing can decay, beauty last memories too, nothing changes. WE' RE EVERLASTING.

By having gone abstract, I think I managed for everyone to think for themselves even though most of them thought that this looked like the cosmos. However, nothing suggested it, so it was all their personal responses which is what i wanted to achieve.

What could i do better if I had more time? What didn't go so well?

I think i would have liked to show the real crystals to show how i "fooled" the public and show how different it looks from the photographs. I think I could have a better quality camera so I could print in even larger, so the audience could really be plunged in this cosmic world and have an almost immersive experience, because unfortunately i couldn't print huge due to the quality of the image.

I fail to show the connection with the organic decay I would have liked it to come through. The idea of a performative work, changing everyday was very important for me. Since I choose not to impose my concept on the public, I don't wish to explain my ideas and where the work has come from. For this reason, it would have been much more interesting to suggest this idea directly in my work since now it is almost a "lost concept". I could have included this idea by showing developping crystals or crystallising decaying content. The project would have been much powerful and less decorative

If i grew other crystals I'd like to try dying them with food colouring in the actual process rather than spraypainting them after, this would be more real and perhaps more interesting.

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