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.

I decided to link this image with the concept of triumph, a sense of pride to comprehend the level of brightness entering the image. This perspective was formed through the given environment; taken in the middle of St. Helier, this office rose above the life of society and looked down upon the rush of working life. To extend this perspective, I altered the entire exposure of this image to stress the angelic glow that radiates the office exterior in attempt to send a signal of success towards the meaning of this modernistic building. Giving the tonal value a profile of how education and finance appears to be the given spotlight within society today.

With great influence from Van Damme’s work with architect, I have presented my image with such significance on the shadow play due to the impact of leading lines. By increasing the saturation of this image, I was able to create a greater contrast of the warm escape that entices the viewer against the mysterious darkness that echoes further into the compact alleyway, directed through the thickness of the shadow and its leading lines. Given this context, I figured this image presents an opening of freedom that is tightly fitted between the urbanism of working life. Located in St. Helier, this scenery was taken in the center of a block of finance offices named ‘Liberation House’  a major new landmark within St. Helier, with clarity of form and the use of grey and pink granite cladding, combine an effect of fashionable hierarchy that dominantly overcomes the exposure of nature. With this ongoing issue of densely populated areas of society, man-kind continue to proceed with the compact demands of finance and how the economy is harshly cropping our perspective of atmospheric views as presented in this image.

With inspiration from both Fontana and Schulze, I have given this image a stressful demand of colour to the viewer. For this reason being; I took knowledge from both artists and formed a response to abstract photography. Originally capturing the structure of apartments located in First Tower, Jersey; I noticed a vision that seemed dull and flat, sparking my decision to introduce Fontana and Schulze’s technique of entering vibrant, bold colours to give elements of reality a sense of enthusiasm and fantasy. Playing with this concept, I also formed a set of formation towards the composition of the image, diving three portrait segments of colour, supporting my corporate objective to achieve structure.

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