Abandoned Places – Part 2

December 14, 2009

Exploring new spaces – shifts to exterior spaces, this is all still-photographs. The plant matter that has taken over abandon buildings/structures. To use an alternate process to wax the images onto a plate.

Critique:
Sunday Ballew: It invokes a time-lapse; the weeds taking over the home and invokes a live space.

Lizzy Brooks: The particular house image evokes the scene of space instead of a portrait of an object. The dead animal is subtle, but it is still about the object that is being photographed.

Micah Walter: The trees reference instead of gesturing and representing beyond the composition.

Timothy Druckrey: Dead animals decaying has become cliche. Structures being enclosed are also cliche. The image of ‘the house image’ where it is no danger about the centrality (where there isn’t any) makes the whole environment become important. The photographic action between the analog versus the digital. Analog capturing of an image is about not-seeing the image, instead of the digital image as always being seen.

Sunday Ballew: I understand that the image of the dead animal is considered a cliche; but it is uniquely yours and you should continue it.