Abakan Rouge III, by Magdalena Abakanowicz
Risham Syed
Exhibition Conclusion
These two pieces stood out to me while I was walking around the exhibition because firstly of the large scale size of the works. Both of them can be walked around completely and are floating off the ground which means they are visually interesting and engaging for the viewer. The three pieces are also 3D which means that they stand out to the viewer even more, which is something that I should think about for my images.
Exhibition Conclusion
While thinking about the two images that I have chosen, it seems with all the research I do it just reinforces the ideas that I first had about printing the images life size. It makes a lot of sense to print my image life size, because I want the viewer to be able to put themselves into the tent to experience it first hand, which is why it makes sense to make it life size so everything is to scale with real life which will make it easier for them to imagine themselves in the tent itself.
Julian Germaine when taking part in his portfolio review reminded me that if I were to print the wide angle lens photographs like I am talking about, I would have to scale the image to something nearest the camera because the lens distorts sizes and scales.
After printing my images life size in high gloss, I have decided to mount them directly onto the wall instead of mounting them on something before putting them on the wall. This brings me back to the research I completed at the Julia Cameron exhibition, where one of here images in the doorway was fixed onto the wall which made it look like it was fixed in the present. I think this is incredibly important for my project because I want the viewer to be firstly transported into the image and experience it like they are standing in the tent, while they are bearing in mind that this problem is a current one and not in the past. They need to remember when looking at my image, that people are living like this at the moment and something needs to be done about it. I believe the best way to create those feelings in the viewer is to fix it in the 'present' directly onto the wall at a life size scale.
Also I believe that my image will be more powerful if its directly fixed to the wall without any form of mounting, because it represents how people try to ignore the fact that homeless people are actually living around them and how they are always fixed in the backgrounds of peoples minds. Which will connect with how much image is fixed to the back wall of the gallery. I also think that if I fix the image to the wall it gives the homeless people a fixed location for the image to sit on the gallery wall in the present, which contrasts their un-fixed housing location in real life. I have used the bare minimum techniques and materials of displaying my photographs, apart from printing two large format images, because I want my exhibition piece to represent how homeless people have to live with minimal objects and comforts in their life.
After printing my images life size in high gloss, I have decided to mount them directly onto the wall instead of mounting them on something before putting them on the wall. This brings me back to the research I completed at the Julia Cameron exhibition, where one of here images in the doorway was fixed onto the wall which made it look like it was fixed in the present. I think this is incredibly important for my project because I want the viewer to be firstly transported into the image and experience it like they are standing in the tent, while they are bearing in mind that this problem is a current one and not in the past. They need to remember when looking at my image, that people are living like this at the moment and something needs to be done about it. I believe the best way to create those feelings in the viewer is to fix it in the 'present' directly onto the wall at a life size scale.
Also I believe that my image will be more powerful if its directly fixed to the wall without any form of mounting, because it represents how people try to ignore the fact that homeless people are actually living around them and how they are always fixed in the backgrounds of peoples minds. Which will connect with how much image is fixed to the back wall of the gallery. I also think that if I fix the image to the wall it gives the homeless people a fixed location for the image to sit on the gallery wall in the present, which contrasts their un-fixed housing location in real life. I have used the bare minimum techniques and materials of displaying my photographs, apart from printing two large format images, because I want my exhibition piece to represent how homeless people have to live with minimal objects and comforts in their life.