Memory Summons
My concept for this project was all about memories. I took a picture of a young person's bedroom (from IKEA, not gonna lie) and played with the exposure to darken the room. This matched the darkness of the experimental images I took in my backyard. I used string lights, bigger lights than in the average design for string lights, and spun them really fast to make up for my phone camera's really short exposure time. It made an almost spherical ball (I made a really good sphere with another set but like this one better) which to me looked like an orb or a memory. (The movie "Inside Out" is not a movie I've watched many times but the motif of memories as illuminated spherical objects has stuck for some reason.) I also balled up some smaller lights in my hands and took a "long" exposure image with my phone to capture not only the light shining onto my hands, but also be very bright and lively as they are the subject of that specific image. I added swirls to the visual of the childhood room so that there's the illusion that the image has some fuzziness that comes with memories. I added some vignettes to both the room and the whole composition to also add to that "fuzziness". To connect the top and bottom "halves" of the vertical composition I added vertical lines that look like light trails and match the color palette. The corgi is the only element I used that wasn't mine. I added it because I thought the originally empty dog bed didn't match my concept well.
Corgi Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-corgi-sleeping-on-the-floor-1714454/
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One artist’s work that really stood out to me was Jordan Harper’s Memory Summons. Harper uses light streaks three different ways to display light to convey memory. One of the ways he captured light streaks was by tying lights to strings and spinning them really fast to get the light design in the middle in what has the outline of a hornets nest. The wispy streaks above the couch could be viewed as memories the dog is dreaming about.
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