Filena Arcia Task #1

I was really inspired and intrigued by the video we watched on synaesthesia especially since I had never seen synaesthesia depicted in a visual way. I had read about it before and taught about it; but to actually hear someone that has it talk about how it affects them and to see a representation of what it may be like really intrigued me. For this assignment I decided to use some of the things that the woman talked about such as her ability to see words when she hears them and associate colours to them as well as how she can taste them. I decided to photograph an image of a table setting with words and colours representing food one would taste. The two circles are the "o" on the coffee mug and the "o" on the paper in the foreground. Something incomplete is the sentences that are cut up representing food. Juxtaposition is created through the very black and white colours splashed with vibrant paint. The pattern is created through the text was well as the lines on the mug. The texture is created through the curled and scrunched paper. The fake is the fake apple made with newspaper and the line can be seen as the line of text on the food as well as the line on the mug.

Hillary Nystedt: Task #1

 

For this first piece I shot in the studio in a "staged" environment.  The two circles can be found on the table, the line in the towel, texture in the tablecloth and towel and white there as well.  There is a juxtaposition between the woman and the feminine objects also between the green/yellow towel and red/orange background. The fake is the make-up. The incomplete is the woman without the make-up,a stage from bare self to covered.

Task #1 - Bailey Wilson

This is my Hemp Kit.  I use it mostly in the summer, whilst sitting on a beach in the sunshine...

Reese's Task Number One

Lunch 29/01/11

When first given this task, I immediately thought of abstract expressionist painting. I’m typically drawn towards the use of defined edges and an intuitive approach to the composition of shapes and colours. Using the scanner as a camera is a particular method I continue to explore, a relatively recent technology and still relevant to the present time. It allows me to create various compositions and assemblages that are difficult to make otherwise. Using items readily available at home and, in this case, items from a meal, I am able to transform these everyday objects into a personal take on the very abstract art I admire.

Johanna Louie

I took the concepts as ambiguous guidelines to create an image that is literal. I googled images for the words "fake" and "a fake" to create an incomplete pattern of fakes within "two circles" that juxtapose against a white background in a straight line.

Task 1: Caitlin Cox

My mother hand sewed and embroidered the quilt that I keep on my bed during the winter months. I often think of the amount of effort and time she put into it. I feel comfortable in my bed knowing the blanket she gave me was made with so much care. The left is a photo of a locket she sewed into the quilt, she put my picture along with hers inside. It represents the solidity and constancy of our relationship as mother and daughter. We have both aged since the photos were taken, my mother will be turning sixty soon. As we age our relationship changes, but the things she makes for me are a continuous reminder of the past.  

Task #1- Stefanie Cocuzzo

Lately I have taken an interest in capturing the domestic interior space and our relationship to objects within these spaces. I have been working with miniature room sets to play on the idea of the "real" and "fake" representations of space when seen in a photograph. With this image I wanted to incorporate that idea and have the miniature interact with the actual space and I have interpreted the following task as follows:

Line- seen through the runner on the table

White- the chandelier and plates within the cabinet

Two Circles- The tree in the corner of the image

A Fake- The mannequin 

Pattern- The shirt on the mannequin 

Juxtaposition- The dining room miniature furniture set placed within an actual space

THOSE AREN'T WORKING MAN'S HANDS by Renée Drexler

This Carte De Visite is a sham, like the man behind the camera who has absolutely no idea how to take a picture. The man in the picture was hired based on the delicate nature of his hands. His hands are soft, uncomfortably so. If he were to touch you with his soft hands, his touch would feel powdery and catch you off guard. I think your body would shudder in disgust yet something would possess you to calmly look the photographer in the eye and say "Sir, your hands are so soft that I would be surprised if you were able to produce a thumb print." In that instant you find yourself seduced by the Soft Hand Bandit and become a helpless subject before his lens.

'Hog-Tied' by Caitlin Baker

This bear, Ted, was my first stuffed animal. This past summer, I brought a sack of stuffed toys to Toronto with the intention of incorporating them into my thesis. I still have over a hundred of the things and the strangeness of that needs exploring.

Somehow Ted made it into the bed.

 I wake up to find him in strange places, something I haven’t experienced since I left my home and plushie-ladden bed behind. I didn’t realize how much I missed finding toys in the covers, a tiny reminder of my past mashed into my skin and lost for days in the folds of the duvet. 

Ted is monochromatic with a non-descript face and tiny thread frown. He has no chin, his ears are forgettable and is visually engaging in absolutely no way. He has a large head and dangly human-like limbs. Descartes argued “perception, or the action by which we perceive, is not a vision… but solely an inspection of the mind… it often happens that in order to be more perfect as an image and to represent an object better, an engraving ought not to resemble it.”

Ted is a sad excuse for a bear. It’s fun to be mean to him sometimes.

Task One: Katie Stewart

ORANGE

An appropriated photo collage composed of six separate detached images.

A false perspective and depth of field,

interrupted by a white

line.

 A juxtaposition of colours, 

textures, patterns,

circles.

 

Assignment 1, task1 - Elena Franzese

Elena Franzese

In this photograph, there is a minor trick here on the viewer's perception of documentary fact (the documentation of CD album covers).  As one of the criteria suggests for this assignment, one of these covers is a fake - i.e. one I made up for a compilation CD.  My theory/concept is: when a single false bit of information is inserted within a larger chunk of data, it is easy to overlook, especially when someone is not expecting to find anything wrong with what they are seeing.  I also see this as a comment on how much attention people will truly give to an image, and whether or not they are making a quick assumption, or if they are actually noticing anything out of place.  In this case, a fraction [of the image] cannot sum up the whole (as one big factual thing), yet many would make that assumption.

task one: Kevin Chaves

Lately I've been experimenting a lot with iphone photography. For this assignment I took several black and white images taken on my phone and arranged them together in photoshop and painted in the colour.

task one : Carly McGhee

Carly McGhee

"perspective has classically been defined as a picture of the view seen from a window."
The body's of work I have typically found myself working on lately have been a reflection of the emotional mind set I have been experiencing. Heavily medicated anxiousness to overwhelming depression; I would find myself starring at the every day objects as obstacles that need to be over come. This would lead to an examination of the forms and functions of these objects. When trying to decipher the list of objects that needed to be included, i found this view I encounter everyday to perfectly in compass that list.

Task #1, Sarah Ashenhurst

TWO CIRCLES: horse's eyes, FAKE: the photograph was taken off the tv from an old home video, SOMETHING INCOMPLETE: the flash removes the face leaving the figure on the horse incomplete, WHITE: the horse as well as the flash of light, LINE: lines in the background, PATTERN: the pattern the tv screen creates through the entire image, JUXTAPOSITION: the animal (nature) in a contained space

TASK #1

JOJO JOME

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