Weekend experimentation

My film finally arrived Friday and I was able to experiment a bit. I only shot three images, two of which were just crap. The third image I really enjoy, the film captured the most beautiful deep green color within the plant. After shooting the image, I kind of realized that it might not have been what I actually intended to shoot for the project but of course I am giving some leeway, in case I come upon a better interpretation of the same overall idea. I am noticing that the more I use my Polaroid camera the focus always seems to be really soft. Anyway, feedback is always appreciated.

Propane Rhododendrons.

Inspiration

Andre Kertesz, really quite fascinating gloomy polaroids taken while grieving the loss of his wife.

I have to admit that I am nearly speechless with Helmut Newton's Polaroids. They give off so much seduction and beauty within the female figure while also containing a level of mystery. 

Andrei Tarkovsky's work is breath taking. His images incorporate such a lovely atmospheric quality, truly splendid. 

I find myself really drawn to Miranda Lichtenstein's Polaroids of flower still lifes.

This artist, Miun, works with Impossible Film using the batteries inside of the cartridges to create light up displays.

More Ideas

Last weekend, I visited the Tacoma Art Museum. The Art AIDS America exhibit was pretty amazing. I think I was particularly amazed by the level of emotion created by each of the pieces. Personally, I do not know of anyone affected by AIDS, and this show was an eye opener in how destructive it truly is, and not only to the infected victim but also to anyone who is close to that person. 

Then I walked through the Northwest in the West exhibition, which I must add should have been viewed in the opposite order. After walking through the AIDS show, one just cannot relate to landscapes and buffalo with cowboys and Indians in a meaningful attitude. I did however enjoy viewing Gilbert Stuart's painting of George Washington from 1797. It is inspiring to see art that has been literally treasured for over two hundred years. What I did gather from the Western paintings was actually their rather over sized frames. I found it kind of funny, these gody rustic gold frames, as if to say these pieces of art are made even more important with the addition of these particular frames. 

With this I was thinking about how it could be thought provoking for the viewer to frame the Impossible Project film themselves inside of large gold frames. Below are examples of said frames.

Fall 2015

This quarter, I would like to continue working with Polaroid and kind of see where it takes me. I plan on purchasing a decent amount of impossible film, in hopes that I will be able to sufficiently experiment with my overall concepts. I intend to photograph mundane objects in a way that suggest emotions to the viewer. I also think it would be interesting to incorporate self portraits among the objects.

I have been considering ways in which to display the finished photographs. After seeing the Impossible Projects new Black and Yellow film exhibition where the finished Polaroids were photographed or possibly even scanned and printed much much larger. I think this could be a good way to present the images.