Projected Images and the Body

February 7th, 2011

Arisha’s first edits of images which contain nude models with projections on them. She is working with having images of the “real-life” models on their own and then have their image projected to another model of the opposite gender. Arisha will try to print them at 24″ x 36″.

Critique:

Craig Kalpakjian: I’m not sure what you mean about the emotionality that is interesting for you. I like the confusion, but how will they be displayed?

Miranda Lichtenstein: Reminds me of the surrealist symbolic elements. But when they start to look like collages, when there is a distinction between the body and the projection, it doesn’t seem to invoke any sort of emotionality. But where these boundaries collapse, that is when it becomes intriguing.

Meg Rorison: The image of the figure in the background seems very distracting. Any possible cropping or do you want to establish a dailogue?

Arisha Trifonova: I want there to be a dialogue. Having these men/models on top of the female figures related to more personal elements in my own life (of relationships, of failed relationships..) is more of the conception of the whole piece. But I do have vice-versa images of female forms projected onto male models as well.

Kim Llerena: The skin tone color you are trying to go for; that color balance is something to question. The value of having a blue projection tone makes it a direct reference to projected light.

Arisha Trifonova: My process is just finding people as I go. I would like to use a model couple. Just having a model who responds and having a photoshoot and then projecting on the opposite gender’s body. I don’t think it is important to have couples.

Will Knipcher: Doesn’t seem that important. The couple’s reach would just make it a different piece. It would make it about the couples interacting. It is really a lot about this ambiguous bodies being projected on.

Craig Kalpakjian: “Robert Heinkin” is an artists who used magazine pages and with projected light wanted to display both portions of the page to create a complex juxtaposition. THere are surrealistic notions on these images, but are you interested in perversion?

Arisha Trifonova: I am neutral about it.

Miranda Lichtenstein: “Cindy Sherman’s” mannequin work should be interesting to you to look at. She would push towards the grotesque. Your means to an end needs to be considered, whether or not you want to end at your representation of having these composite human begins as a symbol of your relationships.

Darrell Appelzoller: The images despite having been original content, can’t help but seem so cinematic. Do they have to be nude figures having projections on them?

Travis Masingale: All the content is that of youth and fit bodies. There is a connotation of sexuality inherent within the subject matter that I think needs to be addressed.