Artist statement
For my final project I was given the two opposite words “near”, and “far”. I decided to continue on with the same project I have been working on for several weeks now. With the new concept of “near” and “far” I continued my previous idea of using different saturation levels to tell the story of “city” vs. “nature” by keeping the “near” photographs at full saturation, and leaving the “far” photographs in black and white.
For my final concept I chose the images of flowers you could find in flowerpots and window boxes to link the city and nature together. I wanted to capture the idea that even though cities are the reason that nature is becoming obsolete that those living in cities still want nature and nature’s beauty around them. To show the idea of “near” I took close up photographs of these flowers and also made them the largest photographs in my final piece. For my city I chose to do a similar style piece as the one I continued, using layers to show the city’s mass. To show “far” I made the city small using photographs 1 inch by 1inch or slightly bigger. I also put this piece a few inches away from the conglomeration of pieces as a whole.
I want the viewer to be able to walk through my piece still as my original concept; this is why I put the larger flower photographs on a log instead of mounted on a wall. I want the viewer to see my photographs in an interesting fashion that they are not used to letting them see photographs in a different light. I feel that in using the layer technique as I did throughout the piece I was able to give the viewer multiple versions of the same piece, and a way for they to view it and see other things each time.
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