Final Hoorah

So as a final piece to this large puzzle I have seemingly created involving all these artistic ideas and pieces, I have to say that photography just possibly may be my absolute favorite medium.

Photography will forever be a part of my life, and scrapbooking, too.  They go hand-in-hand.  I have a friend that loves it as much as I do and sometimes we go somewhere just for the purpose of taking interesting pictures, not always just from the straight-on view.  We brought along a megaphone cheerleaders use one time to set up the self-timer.  Sometimes we concoct some way for it to be above us, and sometimes below.  Always changing the angle, getting a different angle on life.  Perspective is a big thing.  Why take a picture straight on, when everyone can see the same view?  To me, photography is about getting different views of a subject, views that are not seen by the naked eye.  Maybe one person stands on a bridge while the other is down below, frolicking on the water's edge.  You would have to be careful not to get the bridge in the picture, though, because then it would just become something you could imagine yourself seeing if you were walking across that bridge.  It would have to be unseen becaues that is what creates the element I am looking for.  

Graduation is coming up, and I will be one that has a zillion photo albums out on a table for people to see.  I don't really think people actually look at them, but graduation will be a good reason for me to get motivated and finish them for my own future use.  I love the art of creating a new world for my viewers in the photography era.  Interesting.

Building Up

Think of the absolute most amazing thing you have ever seen.  The most visually pleasing, the most prominent.  What is it about that that sticks out in your mind?


For instance, I love interesting images and views of the sky, especially right at sunset when all of the colors are swishing and swarming together.  The pinks and oranges, reds and golds, all gathering in one place to release an amazing sight to see.  If it was just one piece of the picture, missing just one color from the view, it would not be the same.  It would not have the same effect.


In order to catch all the messages something is attempting to express, you have to notice all of the details.  All of the colors, marks, sounds, textures... everything has something to do with the whole picture, the greater, deeper meaning.

Words & Pictures

With all this talk about art, I repeatedly search for visual art by means of paintings, drawings, sculptures, etc.. but while I sit here and think, I wonder: why shouldn't written art count?

Books and paintings have a likeness about them.  By reading a book you as the reader have a liberty to imagine the described plot and scenes in any way you like, no two perspectives will be exactly the same.  The author gives you the artistic privilege to take his words and statements and interpret them in your own way.  But paintings are the exact opposite of this.  With paintings, you as the viewer have the liberty to conjure up your own story, your own ideas for what made the image come to life.  No one could ever think of the same story.  The artist behind the work, just as an author of a book, leaves the viewer to interpret his or her work in whichever way most appeals to them.

Neat.

BioMedical

Recently, we have gone through a lot of college-prep and deciding what we want to do with our lives, "we" being the junior class I belong to at my school.  I was trying to decide which classes to take for my senior year, and I knew that I wanted to take Anatomy 2.  I am usually not a science person, but I really enjoy my A&P class right now, so I had to drop Spanish 4 and ditch math in order to fit it in.  Regardless, I can still fit in my two art classes I really wanted to take, Creative Drawing & Painting, which we use to dabble in the careers we are thinking about, and Adobe Photoshop 1 & 2.  Then, we had a college fair at a nearby university.  Colleges from all around showed up with their reps to talk to us about the possibility of attending their school.  While looking in to CIA, Cleveland Institute of Art, I noticed that one of the several programs they offer was called Biomedical Art.  In further inquiry, I really thought it might be an interesting profession.  Or maybe if I want to be a physical therapist, it could go hand in hand, as most of the biomedical art classes would almost but not quite the same.


I looked up some bioartists, and Hunter Cole is really something.  She has posters that read "Ebola is beautiful" and "Herpes is beautiful."  Pretty interesting interpretations.  Above, seen in warm colors, is a painting called "Malaria Resistance."  Below, seen in cool colors, is "Blue."