How do I capture my emotions and connections to my images?
Project: Branding the Species
Project: Branding the Species
When I look at the images of my past and the images from the present, I know there is a humanity to them, but how do I explain what they mean to me and how I relate to the rest of humanity?
I find it hard to really grasp this and how I can truly lay this out and explain it. In many ways, I want to really just make scrapbook-like pages with these images and to add my own comments and thoughts below handwritten. Typefaces are great and all, but somehow I feel that the best way I can capture what I feel about this project is through scratches of text made with my own hand. Letters have always been something personal to me, something beautiful, something that brings inexplicable joy. I could care less if the text was illegible, as long as it was there, written by a person.
I want in that sense to mix photos, handwritten comments and other media, perhaps sewing on tidbits here and there that link my life together. So I am considering scratching the 5 different posters idea and rather making a book of images that are overlaid with my own thoughts. There will be the period when I am a baby, dependent on my parents for life and comfort. Then there will be a period when I am a toddler, exploring, but still innocent and very tied to my parents. Following that will be my years as a child, not quite knowledgeable, but becoming less attached and more adventurous. Lastly, will be my adolescent/pre-teen years to now, which are predominantly years of finding identity and being more aware of the dangerous world we live in.
I want to then, set it out as if it were a sketchbook of pictures mixed with text. In this way, it models humanity's ability to work with their hands and create things from gourmet food to intricate furniture, but the images will also be an expression of our growth both physically and emotionally. Our life is one of growing from innocence to maturity. When I look at these images, I see things in my younger self that I no longer see in myself, but there are also other things that I still see in myself. These lasting qualities then tie my pictures together and indicate that humanity changes and grows, but keeps on to certain aspects of life.
I find it hard to really grasp this and how I can truly lay this out and explain it. In many ways, I want to really just make scrapbook-like pages with these images and to add my own comments and thoughts below handwritten. Typefaces are great and all, but somehow I feel that the best way I can capture what I feel about this project is through scratches of text made with my own hand. Letters have always been something personal to me, something beautiful, something that brings inexplicable joy. I could care less if the text was illegible, as long as it was there, written by a person.
I want in that sense to mix photos, handwritten comments and other media, perhaps sewing on tidbits here and there that link my life together. So I am considering scratching the 5 different posters idea and rather making a book of images that are overlaid with my own thoughts. There will be the period when I am a baby, dependent on my parents for life and comfort. Then there will be a period when I am a toddler, exploring, but still innocent and very tied to my parents. Following that will be my years as a child, not quite knowledgeable, but becoming less attached and more adventurous. Lastly, will be my adolescent/pre-teen years to now, which are predominantly years of finding identity and being more aware of the dangerous world we live in.
I want to then, set it out as if it were a sketchbook of pictures mixed with text. In this way, it models humanity's ability to work with their hands and create things from gourmet food to intricate furniture, but the images will also be an expression of our growth both physically and emotionally. Our life is one of growing from innocence to maturity. When I look at these images, I see things in my younger self that I no longer see in myself, but there are also other things that I still see in myself. These lasting qualities then tie my pictures together and indicate that humanity changes and grows, but keeps on to certain aspects of life.
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