Moving with Meaning
Moving with Meaning
Moving with Meaning
Moving through life without awareness versus moving through life with clarity and presence.
Moving through life without awareness versus moving through life with clarity and presence.
Moving through life without awareness versus moving through life with clarity and presence.
My theme for my analogue prints explores “moving through life without awareness versus moving through life with clarity and presence.” To elaborate further, throughout our lives, we tend to repeat certain routines and daily tasks. This repetitiveness can cause us to not be fully engaged with the activities we do when we repeat the same things over and over again. This can cause us to be depressed and even lose a sense of purpose and identity. I have felt this numerous times within my routine and throughout my life; this is the main reason why I wanted to illustrate this for this project.
I’ve expressed this in my prints through the use of motion blur. Blurring the subject and their environment, creating a ghost-like appearance (heavily inspired by my research into Francesca Woodman’s work). The blur is to evoke that this person isn’t ‘all there’; they’re just a mere blur in time. These photos are also shot indoors to evoke a sense of isolation and confinement from the outside world.
Comparing the blurry prints to the clear ones, the clear ones are shot outdoors, in nature. It shows how the subject has this relationship with his environment compared to being confined within his own self. These photos clearly show how the subject is present in what’s happening and within his environment, in this case, in nature. The subject isn’t doing any sudden actions, but they’re more in a meditative state, taking in everything that’s happening in the moment.
As mentioned earlier, I’ve taken inspiration from Francesca Woodman and Uta Barth, seeing how they incorporate motion blur into their photos. I’ve also taken inspiration from movies like “The Seventh Continent” that speak on themes that align with mine, such as repetitive routines and detachment from living.
My theme for my analogue prints explores “moving through life without awareness versus moving through life with clarity and presence.” To elaborate further, throughout our lives, we tend to repeat certain routines and daily tasks. This repetitiveness can cause us to not be fully engaged with the activities we do when we repeat the same things over and over again. This can cause us to be depressed and even lose a sense of purpose and identity. I have felt this numerous times within my routine and throughout my life; this is the main reason why I wanted to illustrate this for this project.
I’ve expressed this in my prints through the use of motion blur. Blurring the subject and their environment, creating a ghost-like appearance (heavily inspired by my research into Francesca Woodman’s work). The blur is to evoke that this person isn’t ‘all there’; they’re just a mere blur in time. These photos are also shot indoors to evoke a sense of isolation and confinement from the outside world.
Comparing the blurry prints to the clear ones, the clear ones are shot outdoors, in nature. It shows how the subject has this relationship with his environment compared to being confined within his own self. These photos clearly show how the subject is present in what’s happening and within his environment, in this case, in nature. The subject isn’t doing any sudden actions, but they’re more in a meditative state, taking in everything that’s happening in the moment.
As mentioned earlier, I’ve taken inspiration from Francesca Woodman and Uta Barth, seeing how they incorporate motion blur into their photos. I’ve also taken inspiration from movies like “The Seventh Continent” that speak on themes that align with mine, such as repetitive routines and detachment from living.
