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Photography Final Project. "What came first?" A photo series.

Here's the final project I did for my photography class. It's a 6 window mat, bevel cutted, with 6 square prints. The series reflects on the age old parodical question, "Which came first? The chicken? Or the egg?"

Anne Frank Memorial Observation

1) I see a memorial, in the form of concrete seating, walls with inscriptions, and a concrete set similar to an attic. In the center is a bronze statue of Anne looking out of a window.

2) The concrete walls, door, and frame all frame in this representation of an attic, where Anne lived out a huge portion of her life due to Nazi conflict in Germany.

3) Probably the bronze sculpture, because its very dominant in the center and it's in the form of a human, which we tend to look toward.

4) I don't think the memorial is site specific, because Boise, Idaho doesn't hold much significance to the Holocaust.

5) The Idaho Human Rights Education center created and designed the memorial with funding from private donors.

6) Bronze, trees, grass, concrete, water

7) The text on the wall follows in a certain pattern which functions as to where your eye should follow.

8) I think the intended meaning of the text is to guide you through the memorial.

9) Very successful, it ignites a passion for human rights and gives an interactive element to stepping into this representation of the attic that Anne lived in.

I carved this beauty of soap... SOAP! THE KIND YOU RUB YOUR BUTT WITH!!

Here is my soap sculpture. It's almost ready for judging tomorrow. I just have to build a base. I think I'm going to use film negatives to sit it on. I'm just going to add some texture and smooth out the bottom.

Book Sculpture Ships and Artist Statement

Not once have I had an art project progress that way that this one has. I knew right away

that I wanted to some kind of paper objects, made from pages of books, but deciding what was rather difficult. First, I made a castle, then a windmill, then a lighthouse, then finally my ships. Each object has something in common though, they are each a fantasy that the pages of a popular fiction book often depict.

For this project I wanted to take that fantasy and make it tangible, viewable, and put it in reference to the books that contain it. Instead of reading about the journey of these ships, your watching them, cannons raised high, deciding in your mind who is captain, whose going to win the battle, or even if there is going to be a battle at all. I've made the fantasy more accessible to the consumer.

The Many Faces of my Book Art

In class, I've made a lighthouse and a castle. At home, I sculpted a windmill... all made out of pages from the books I've collected. I'm having trouble putting this one together, because none of them seem to serve the purpose I want to.

I think my problem is that I'm creating structural objects, instead of living, moving objects that have a sense of adventure. Because of this, I'm going to attempt to build giant ships. Two of em.

They might even battle.

Focus on the Artist: M.L. Van Nice

M. L. Van Nice is another book artist that alters the book to create sculpture and meaning. His piece I included above titled "Swiss Army Book" is intricate, complicated, with lots of meaning. He's got the book serving a much bigger purpose than just to contain words and pages.