Wednesday, August 29, 2007

What to do...

So today i felt really frustrated with everything. I don't know if it's senioritis, but i fell like i'm running out of ideas for photography and making art in general. My problem is that i second guess my work before i even start making it. I need help with this! Because i feel like i need to be asking questions about every little thing in my work (ex: what does that color mean? why it is shot this way? who are you referencing?) i never even want to begin. And what happened to asthetics? Can we really not just like the way something looks visually? I do understand why photographs that have a deeper meaning are going to be more interesting in the end, but i need to start somewhere and i feel like i am tired of starting with some gigantic concept and trying to photograph it.
Well besides all of that, i am thinking of a few ideas but i don't really have concepts for them yet. I was thinking of doing these painterly looking potraits. i guess bringing up Kahlo the other day reminded me how much i always wished i could paint and i think i could get a really cool effect photographing something that looked like a painting. I really like surrealism and i would like to somehow introduce it into my work. Anyway those are my ideas for now...

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