In direct response to my reference to Luke Fowler, I followed up with a production of a juxtaposition as I’d like to portray two sides to nature as we typically only see a beautiful or aesthetically pleasing representation of the environment. I really enjoyed producing this visual bathos as the colours contrast one another.

The second set of final pieces I produced were photographs of artificial flowers, linking to the iconic name ‘ARTificial’. By incorporating artificial flowers within my work, I attempted to demonstrate man kind’s ignorant and insincere nature as they’d rather obtain fake flowers that don’t need care than maintain the health of more natural and beautiful flowers.

Similarly to the Zoe Leonard technique of sewing together fruits to resemble her mourning, I used the sewing of photographs to represent the cold, inconsiderate and neglectful nature of the human species as in order to have a full flower, man-kind had to physically sew it together, which also demonstrates their attempts at rekindling nature.

The second piece I produced specifically for this project is the lonely flower. The flower is an obvious representation of the natural world and for me to photograph it intentionally on its own I attempted to display the reclusive and lonely nature that the environment faces. As humans, we often deface nature and turn areas of natural life into housing developments or offices, particularly in Jersey so for the flower to be stood up by its self establishes the natural resistance.

Within my 10 hour photography exam, I was able to produce three final pieces for my coursework task. The collection of images were an attempt to portray the general struggles that nature endures due to the detrimental effect of humans, as well as humans attempting to rekindle a broken nature.

Primarily, I produced ‘Project Garlic’, fundamentally a collection of photographs displaying different angles of a half-used garlic. I attempted to take a typo-logic stance, linking to Karl Blossfedlt, as I felt it was necessary to show human’s destructive nature from a variety of perspectives which is the concept I tried to portray.

The image on the left is my edited prototype of my final before I added in the black’stroke’ around the edge of the image as well as inbetween the cracks. The image represents a human trying to re-piece a garlic with severe emphasis on the hand as the correct garlic formula is ambiguous.

Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. It is really effective for portraying the detail of the photographed object in question, this can be furthered by paying attention to high and low key lighting.

Low key lighting predominantly uses dark tones to create a dramatic looking image, whereas high key lighting seeks to over light the subject to the point of reduced contrast.

Using the still life approach, I attempted to take some images of a garlic from numerous angles. The garlic was missing a couple of cloves which made it more convenient to photograph as I’m trying to display man-kind’s negative impact upon the environment and demonstrate how humans merely take from the natural world.

In order to experiment with the images, I printed the photographs out onto standard A4 paper and sliced the images up in order to combine the four photographs, or alternatively, the three or four segments of the garlic in an usual form of a garlic.

Considering the resurgence of a Karl Blossfedlt approach I also put the garlics into a black and white filter and gave them a black border on Adobe Photoshop.

The black and white filter enhances the sinister effect of humans upon the natural world, which is also displayed through the garlic missing cloves as they were utilized for human consumption, demonstrating the greed of our species.

Following the attention to the human assumption aspect, I would like to establish what happens to the garlic once used or in its cooking form. Here is another garlic structure…

Sammy Slabbinck is a unique contemporary photographer who is notorious for using collages. The Belgiancombines his own photography with alternative images, which are usually old-fashioned, giving a vintage effect.

To view more of his work, click the following link … https://www.yatzer.com/sammy-slabbinck-art/slideshow/11

Sammy Slabbinck’s iconic and individual take on the world caught my attention as he combines photographs fluently and gives an obvious opinion in each of his images. One photograph of Slabbinck’s that certainly caught my attention is the following image as it really does open a variety of images you’d expect to see through a camera. Slabbinck gives such a simple yet effective visual representation of the photographic process and gives different examples to help visualize the camera and its function, whilst also portraying his own interpretation. For a modern photographer to use old fashioned images and emit such a vintage tone inverts my expectations which fundamentally, makes the collection of photographs more interesting.

The split up images are portrayed as different rays coming from the camera. The graphics show presumably an old fashioned holiday home and a man holding a traditional camera, setting this very vintage and mature scene. The interesting visuals are juxtaposed with bland brown paper which help illuminate the images which Slabbinck forces us to focus on.

I attempted to recreate the image in my own way…

After a long thinking process of conjuring up several ideas in order to tackle my Zoe Leonard approach, I decided to visit my local sewing shop. The lady ran me through the qualities of different sewing materials, such as wool and nylon before I opted with a black acrylic material.

I’m hoping to physically connect the images with this material to make direct reference to Zoe Leonard and her techniques in photography.  Leonard uses her unique methods of re-piecing fruit to establish her mourning, potentially demonstrating her trying to fix herself following a feeling of grief. I will try to reciprocate a similar emotion but link it to the preservation of life (within nature), rather than focusing on death itself.

Luke Fowler (b. 1978, Glasgow) is an artist, filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. His work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary filmmaking. He is notorious for his ‘two-frame films’ which is a method I’d like to undertake.

I experimented with the two previous images using the Fowler technique as I thought the juxtaposition between the two images coincided nicely as it exposes nature in a happy, joyous tone in comparison to a sombre and melancholy one.