Three more weeks. 5 books, 4 paintings, photos photos photos...so much to do.
I keep brainstorming about my capstone artist statement, and I have a feeling its going to be the shortest one they've ever seen. Three sentences? Hope thats okay.
Strange article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/arts/design/08rothenberg.html
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
my website!
it is very very very under construction because of all the organization and photoshopping that must be done...but its coming along! the name is stupid, but thats what happens when its a free website.
www.kaitlinwaterman.weebly.com
www.kaitlinwaterman.weebly.com
For weeks I have been editing my photos into separate portfolios. I have been so busy with job hunting and working on my portfolios, I have barely taken new photographs. It has taken forever to find the files, photoshop them, organize them...I'm still not done, BUT I am currently narrowing down my Capstone and I think it's going pretty well...new work and old work combined into one portfolio that is conceptually cohesive. So far I think it's these 6 (the 7th photograph of birds is a possible alternative):
Job hunting for photo jobs is almost impossible.
Job hunting for photo jobs is almost impossible.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Self Portraits
To Do/Goals:
1. Make crime scene kozo book
2. More food close ups to complete that portfolio, printed large
3. 50 photos of inside cars
Yikes
Finally going through ALL of my college photographs and organizing them...Different piles...different portfolios. So far I have 12 different categories...
1. Mom
2. Nightmarish photos
3. Airplane series
4. Formal pictures
5. Tourists, Tourism
6. Words, Signs, Buttons, Text
7. Surfaces (100 small and 25ish large glossy prints)
8. People, social interactions
9. Crime scenes
10. Windows, Reflections,
11. Food
12. Self portraits
Once I've organized them, I have to go through the files on my computer, put them together, then photoshop them (I never save the photoshopped version for some stupid reason)...Then they'll be ready to burn to a disk. I'm sure half of these photos are on my old laptop which barely works, so that'll be tricky.
This is kind of depressing...coming to an end. And I wont finish all of these portfolios before I graduate...and then what if I never finish them?
Working on a collage painting:
I also made a crime scene accordion book...not that satisfied with presenting it this way, but it fulfilled a book arts assignment...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Thursday...
Made a test frame and test photo stretched over it...Now I'm really not sure what I want to do with them.
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Reaction to Alec Soth...
I really really enjoyed his lecture. His work has progressed over the years through his methodology of choosing things he’s interested in and linking them to something else he can work on next, which relates back to the previous work. In the end, this gives his entire body of work a cohesion that many fine art photographers struggle for. Maybe it's not even that he's linking subject matter...I suppose its just the way he treats it.
The critique was a little disappointing because he was so burnt out...and most of the feedback was negative. Telling Nathan that he was doing something unintentionally interesting was kind of weird...as if saying "You dont really know what you're doing, but you're accidentally making interesting work." How did he know what his intentions were, and if your intentions are different from the viewer's perception, does that make you wrong...?
It was really nice to have a fine art photographer as a visiting artist...It seems like an impossible career, so I better start looking elsewhere. I have been so busy with painting and bookmaking...I have barely been able to devote as much time as I want to the things that I REALLY want to be doing...and NEED to be doing. Like shooting photographs I actually care about...and looking for jobs. And cooking myself meals. I've decided to go on a diet. I get really dirty looks when I tell people this because they're usually thirty pounds heavier than me...but seriously. No more fast food, no more soda...I have a new phobia of getting fat. Maybe I should photograph obese people and try to see the beauty in it, and get over my phobia...or maybe I should just stick with the diet.
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Reaction to Alec Soth...
I really really enjoyed his lecture. His work has progressed over the years through his methodology of choosing things he’s interested in and linking them to something else he can work on next, which relates back to the previous work. In the end, this gives his entire body of work a cohesion that many fine art photographers struggle for. Maybe it's not even that he's linking subject matter...I suppose its just the way he treats it.
The critique was a little disappointing because he was so burnt out...and most of the feedback was negative. Telling Nathan that he was doing something unintentionally interesting was kind of weird...as if saying "You dont really know what you're doing, but you're accidentally making interesting work." How did he know what his intentions were, and if your intentions are different from the viewer's perception, does that make you wrong...?
It was really nice to have a fine art photographer as a visiting artist...It seems like an impossible career, so I better start looking elsewhere. I have been so busy with painting and bookmaking...I have barely been able to devote as much time as I want to the things that I REALLY want to be doing...and NEED to be doing. Like shooting photographs I actually care about...and looking for jobs. And cooking myself meals. I've decided to go on a diet. I get really dirty looks when I tell people this because they're usually thirty pounds heavier than me...but seriously. No more fast food, no more soda...I have a new phobia of getting fat. Maybe I should photograph obese people and try to see the beauty in it, and get over my phobia...or maybe I should just stick with the diet.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Wednesday
I want to stretch photos printed on fabric or kozo paper over a wood frame. Is this possible?...I guess I'll just have to test it.
I liked the short video on Jeff Wall. I hate his photo "The Flooded Grave," but I really like basically every other photo of his. I tend to like photos that are cinematic, dramatic, staged - and his are also a complete lie with his method of digital manipulation...constructing an image on a computer, like painters construct an image on canvas...which challenges the history of photography as documentary and truthful. His photos are somewhere between painting and photo collage, with subjects staged in normal and abnormal cinematic moments...always nightmarish.
Time to go print.
I liked the short video on Jeff Wall. I hate his photo "The Flooded Grave," but I really like basically every other photo of his. I tend to like photos that are cinematic, dramatic, staged - and his are also a complete lie with his method of digital manipulation...constructing an image on a computer, like painters construct an image on canvas...which challenges the history of photography as documentary and truthful. His photos are somewhere between painting and photo collage, with subjects staged in normal and abnormal cinematic moments...always nightmarish.
Time to go print.
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