Lesson 1 – Reviewing and reflecting: Objective: Criteria from the Syllabus

• Essential that students build on their prior knowledge and experience developed during the course.

when considering what I should further investigate within my project I started to think about my prior knowledge of my personal investigation and my overview so far. So far within my work I have investigated three main themes, this started off within the demonstration of narrative photography demonstrating how a political landscape should and is able to re create a personal emotion if someone  has an experience within that space. My second idea was a development of what is reality and if I could capture a false reality within my images, this being seen within the reflection of time. Lastly and currently the theme I am working within, this being the sublime and what images can be considered as painful and yet also beautiful. I have learned about how to show emotion through a piece of work and how to tell a story through not a direct narrative but fragmented images being grouped together to express a theme. I intend to further develop a theme that both links, reality the sublime and most importantly emotion. I decided if I used emotion I could denote factors about my own feelings and also those of people I photograph. I believe I want my project to be very unique but most importantly to have very interesting and individual imagery.I belive if I develop emotion I could use factors of the sublime to divide emotions into being beautiful and painful, and how emotions are so subjective to each and every person so much so that it is not the same reality for someone else.  Due to no one knowing what someone else is feeling I belive I could develop a book that shows the ups and down of what people feel. I believe living in what happens between planning for their future. So creating a book based on all my past research and shoot so far will really benefit myself. I could use the sublime to create further imagery in order to create a metaphor for how people feel during these emotions. I still want to use both a picture of landscape and portraits as this genuine combination presents a whole picture of what someone is possibly going through. To my mind when describing what themes are in my work I would say themes which have a sufficient meaning to a person and would effect their emotion shown within a sublime way. So a theme of vulnerability and perhaps a certain amount of truth to the person themselves. I have done much research on an array of artists, But I belive the most influential are those which achieve a sense of beauty and  such a unique appearance to the image itself.I believe focusing on people such as Tim walker and Claude chaun creating an interesting and subjective juxtaposition of techniques and aims within their work. Tim walkers outgoing and almost surrealist manifestos of tablo photography would enable oneself to create the eye-catching unique and sublime imagery. Whereas Claude chaun has a combination of political and social views which would allow me to achieve an emotional representation of individuality of people. Her account for fighting for gender rights and such should be prelivant within my work as the vulnerability of people is such a huge aspect. I have already done a direct response to her work, but if continue to do so with the intent of using her narrative responses this should successful work as an artists inspiration. I believe the difficult aspect of my work I am trying to achieve will be that of what approach I take. I have so many ideas and vision and I need to find the correct approach to tie all the serpent narratives into one intertextual idea. However because I want to find emotion I the sublime this is Both a combination of narrative as a reflection of what people are going through, to trying to create breathtaking and table photography images to then further demonstrate their emotions in a metaphorical physical interpretation. The skills I need are both successful convening an emotion. Through my images and yet also having an interesting composition to the images themselves. Also I think editing will be a large part of successfully creating the images I want to show. I believe I need to take a lot more photos and developing them to create the atmosphere within colour and the angle of the image itself will be difficult but would really advance and help the overall effect of my images. Techniques that inspire me the most are those which I find fascinating and eye catching, this is experimenting its under water photography, night time and light traces, close of textured work, seeing a sublime beauty within nature and lastly using colour a directed narrative to show a sense of atmosphere and the surroundings of myself and the people I aim studying around myself. what techniques am I using to create an overall synced view? As said previously I want to experiment within using many photoshop techniques as well as photographic sutures of using an experiment of slow shutter speed synced with fast capture to show many different atmospheres and characters within my work. Why am I inspired by this? I Find these ideas interesting to me because, showing emotions in such a sublime and new way, possible allows people to be more vulnerable and expressive wihtin their emotions and what they are really feeling. So many people when talking about emotions derive only negative connotations from doing so and belive emotions can only be spoken about in a negative and ill mannered way. I believe emotions should be an expression of who we are, it shouldn’t be reflected as a mirror of oursleves but should be seen wihtin our environment and those around us. Emotion have the ability to show strength and happiness. Examples of current experiments I am thinking about achieving are the following; Overall I am inspired by this through my wanting such an abstract surreal book that express emotion in such a why that is so unexpected yet so obvious to threader about its contact and the feeling it is trying to convey altogether.Emotion and sublime to my mind work hand in hand and I believe this would really successful tie my work in together.