Concentration Two
Scholastic Art Award
Vacancy. Within my photos I like to contain bits and pieces of the city and the grungy parts of it such as the graffiti and worn down buildings. I have explored many different cities and also the same cities time and time again and there is always more to find within it. I love the colors the rust and the graffiti exuding from the pictures I had taken. Maybe someone seeing the picture as beautiful will show them that even the bad parts of the city where no one wants to go is very beautiful and has color everywhere. What draws me is the colors of all the graffiti and how nothing is ever the same such as the buildings they are all breaking down but still all different. They are all still connected through all of the chaos even though the pictures maybe different locations and different types of brick breaking down. Even though things fall apart and break down doesn’t mean they aren’t beautiful.
Artist Hero Two
Stephen Shore was my choice for the second artist hero post. He does photos that are similar to mine, which is why I had chosen him for my next photographer. He takes grudge photos including city buildings, in which my photos contain as well. As you can see some of his pictures are taken from farther away, you can see the whole building in the picture, so he captures the whole scene and not just part of it. I compare these to my building 18 pictures that capture the whole scene of what is going on and not just little parts of it. There is rush and broken down parts in the pictures but it still seems so beautiful right? That's what I try to capture in my photos. How can something to gross and broken down look so beautiful, it seems sorta impossible since the photo is capturing what you see right in front of you, but all the colors look amazing you just have to look a little closer. Which is what Stephen Shore invokes in his photos, making unconventional beauty, beautiful.