After my completion of Project #4 last Thursday (waiting for the Blackberry was excruciating!), I received a surprising amount of positive feedback from friends and strangers alike. I actually had several queries regarding whether I planned to continue doing "A Day In The Life Of..." type events or whether this was to be a stand-alone experience. Friends had told friends about it, so I have had numerous friend requests on Facebook in the days since from these new interested parties.
It seemed to me that, in recording my thoughts/experiences/life in photos, that I was creating something of a new language and a new means of communication between myself and my friends. These photos served almost as miniature graphic poems/commentary of a moment captured in time. Surprisingly, some of thee images elicited similar artistic and communicative responses from friends -- several individuals have sent me personal photos through my private e-mail account in response to some of the images that I posted. In this way, photos have become almost another communicative means and language.
After thinking about this more over the past weekend, I decided to change my final project from a multimedia representation of my racial identity poem to explore this concept more fully. I figure that if so many people are requesting more, there must be something to this concept that warrants further exploration.
I think for this project I will probably end up collaborating with my boyfriend, Ryan Dunkerley, who is also a media artist and photographer (like myself). His focus areas are a bit different than mine, but this past fall we formed a joint production company in the hopes of releasing our works together (Narrow Escapes Media - the site has yet to be fully designed, however.) We also had our first joint art show during the Morgantown Arts Walk this past October and we found that our work goes well together...surprisingly. ;) We already joke that we spend too much time together and we've been wondering how we'll work together, so this is a trial run...our first collaborative exercise!
I'll be the one who plots the design, the project, the implementation and the parameters, although Ryan has suggested the media. We'll be working with my sources entirely. Ryan does server side programming in addition to working with many of the programs I do (and I absolutely do not know PHP - nor do I intend on learning it), so he's going to lend his constructing expertise to the project. I'm excited because I can move out and try some things I have never done. But we'll see how this ends up...hopefully not in 3:00 AM artistic squabbles around the Yule tree during Finals Week. ;)
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