THESIS COMPLETED!

Soooooooo....exciting news! I printed my images and am completely happy with them. They are the perfect color and lighting. For the installation aspect of the project, I have chosen to mount them on canvas and put plexi over the front. I didn't want a border around the images because I felt that it would distract the viewer from the images. I have also felt that this look is chic and clean, which is what I have been trying to achieve. The images are now ready to hang and are waiting for me to install them. My plan was to arrange them horizontally in two rows of seven, one on top of the other but am not entirely sure because I do not want to take away from the Post-Its that will be placed on them to label them. My final decision will come by tomorrow or Thursday when I am able to install. Happy installing! Can't believe this will all be said and done on Friday...oh how time flies

Printing!

I must say, I feel like I've been so busy lately with creating my images that I haven't been blogging!! :/ I have shot so many times on different occasions. I re-shot some, took some shots out of the series. I feel like this has been the most fulfilling creation of a series so far. I am so attached to this work and I really enjoy that about it. As of now, I have 14 images in total...a big change from the 5-6 I had originally wanted. I am much happier with my choice. I recently sent the images to get printed. Unfortunately they came out a little dark, so my plan is to fix them up a bit and get them reprinted.

This is one of my images...I don't to give away many more just because I want to surprise everyone! 

Thesis Crit 3/4

Friday was a particularly useful day. I have finished my images (YAY), so that is what I showed to the class. There were 14 in total and overall, everyone seemed to like them a lot. In our discussion, we tried to talk a lot about the installation and presentation of the show. Megan was the leader of the group who mentioned that since I am displaying photographs, it is important that I really plan out how I choose to arrange the photos in the gallery. She said that it was important and is something that could either take my project to the next level or make it less effective. My idea was that I wanted to have the photos frameless because I don't want the viewer to get distracted by a frame. Someone suggested a floating frame that I could buy at a craft store, which I thought to be a good idea. Megan also mentioned cutting my own plexiglass. Another thing that was mentioned was the relationship of the images to the secrets that I wish to represent on the gallery wall behind the photos. It was mentioned that I should make sure to create a balance between the images and the papers that I write the secrets on so that there is no hierarchy created.

As far as size, some said that they would like to see the images bigger, which I wouldn't mind either but I felt that making them grand in size would tag on a sense of grandeur to the images which would, in turn, create a hierarchy. I have since double the original number in the series but some still think that I should have more. Although I would love to do so, I feel that the series is content with the number that I have and that generating more may be excessive. I was very pleased with the feedback and was happy that people contributed to the discussion. If anyone else has any further feedback, feel free to leave it! :)