For my project, I completely scrapped the bank photo I had before and made a whole new concept. I really wanted to include something with stars so I originally had the milky way as my background but that was way too busy so I got the idea of the astrological signs and how those correlate with the stars. I wanted to bring this back to when I was young because when I was little, the stars were always so vibrant where I lived and I would always go stargazing and I would use my aunts telescope to look at the stars closer. I also always like to point out the astrological signs when I look at the stars even though there is very few I know but when I am outside I always point out the signs so I really wanted to incorporate that.
For my composition I included the stars appearing before the sign appears in the sky along with the cloud slowly going across, a little faster than the sky. I included shooting stars throughout the image as well. I added a telescope and just a picture of my boyfriend pointing to the sky in front of the telescope.
ReplyDeleteFor Madison Young's transformative portrait, in the foreground is an open field lined with trees with a person to the right side of the frame. The person has a telescope in front of them and their direction of view, looking up towards the sky. One hand, the right hand, is lifted towards the sky as though the person is pointing at someone. The subject is facing away; we can only see the subject's side and a bit of their back profile. In the foreground, everything is exposed correctly. We can see details in the grass in the field, in the trees behind the field, the telescope, and the subject, which is closer to us. The sky makes up 2/3 of the composition as a horizontal video. The sky has a nice gradient from a light blue to a darker, rich, toned, royal blue, with stars all over and some clouds in the sky. The movement through this animation is the stars slowly moving, the clouds drifting by in the sky, and the appearance of star constellations slowly throughout the sky.
What the image says about the subject, a person in the photo, is that this person must be excited about stars, stargazing, and constellations. Because they are in this open field setting looking at stars with the telescope. Also, they are in a post and stance that gives the feeling as though they are excited about the stars because their knees are slightly bent, one hand is somewhat further behind their back than the other, and their right hand is pointing up towards the stars like they just saw something. Not only is the hand pointed up at the stars, but the glance is also towards the stars as well. The emotion that comes from this image shows excitement and enjoyment and that this person's personality is happy about the experience they are experiencing. The portrait is aspirational. It alludes to both dreamlike and outcome because of the ambiance in the composition. It makes it seem more like at night and dreamlike for the outcome of being able to see constellations.
The clues in this composition that we can use to interpret the work are the environment it is in, the time of day that it was taken, the placement of the subject, having their back facing towards us, and the movement in the sky. Although we cannot see the subject's face, this image works well as a portrait. We are experiencing an experience with the person that shows some aspect of the personality. A portrait does not have to be a straight-up person's face in the photo. It can be more of what's in the photograph that shows us this person's personality without having to see their face physically. It does this well because of the excited pose that the person is in, their full-on focus on the stars rather than the person behind taking the photo. As well as, the slow period of constellations gives more information that this person must be looking for the constellations of stars and not only looking up at the stars.
ReplyDeleteI think the movement in this composition deepens our understanding of the portrait I said before because of the movement of the stars and the slow parents of consolations in the sky. We can assume that this person is out in this open field to see the stars in the constellations. Also, the pose that they are in gives us a feeling that they are excited and happy and enjoying seeing the stars in the sky. Having the clouds move in front of the person and set up on top of the person would push this composition even more.
I believe this work exists in our culture for entertainment rather than historical or informative purposes. I think this because of the environment of the composition. One could argue, though, that it is historical because of the star constellations that appear throughout it. I don't know much about them as long as they are accurate constellations. So this in fact could be historical, and I don't know much about this topic.
For Madison Young's transformative portrait, I have described physically what the work looks like, interpreting that the portrait is aspirational and gives the personality of the person even though we cannot see the person's face. The clues in the work can be used to understand the work, how it is transformative, what in the work has motion, why that is significant, and how it depends on the meaning of the work and how it would exist in our larger culture. Lastly, this is a transformative portrait because of the emotion that we feel becuase of the chosen parts that move in it; it adds more dynamic information for us to understand.