So Wednesday we had a review day, which was extremely helpful, even though I was nervous as hell! But I took in my tracing paper maps I've been working on, which consist of coloured dots for peoples houses and lines between them indicating that families path of houses as it were. Lecturers seemed to like it and understood what I was getting at, but unsure of exactly what I was going to do next. One lecturer said they almost looked like constellations, which really made me excited as I LOVE space! It completely fascinates me and I love to just think about it and how uncomprehendingly big it is! So I started to think about this and quite a few ideas have popped into my head as to what I can do next now. I'm in the process of scanning in my tracing paper "constellations" and have been playing with putting them on top of existing family photographs, although I'm not sure about the results (I would have put an image on here but it's not letting me for some reason).
Another idea that has come to me has been to pierce holes through existing negatives of the family and try to print them. I have no idea how this will turn out but it's worth a try, and the results could be interesting. It also means using the darkrooms which I havent done in a long time but I may as well use them while I have the chance.
The third idea I have is to create these constellations on black paper by piercing them with a pin and putting them in a lightbox (or a window for now just to test) and see what it looks like. If this works then making an entire "night sky" of my families house paths could look really good.
I'm really glad my lecturer mentioned the space thing as now I can involve a real passion of mine into my work. Not that photography isn't a passion, but space is just...woah!
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