Proposal For Final Project
Over the course of the class a couple of ideas have come to mind to do for the final project. I have since come up with something entirely different from my original thoughts. This is mainly because I will be on vacation from tomorrow until next Thursday. My original idea required logging a decent amount of design hours, which I am afraid I won’t have since I will be out of town. Because I like design, writing, text, font, words, thoughts and ideas and I have seen some really cool text art lately, I wanted to create a specific text art that I had envisioned in my mind.
However, since I am leaving for Playa Del Carmen in the morning I thought it would be fun to create something that infuses two of my most favorite things together – travel and photography. Now if I can incorporate my third most favorite thing in the world, which is live music, into this project then I would be most content. At this point I have a bunch of thoughts and fragmented ideas rattling around in my mind as to what exactly this project is going to be. I’d like to do a photo-montage of my trip and experience in Mexico. I’d also like to get in some video of the art and culture that lives there. I’m aware that the project needs to be an image so I will keep that in mind. I’d also like to include music in the project, or maybe a voice over done by yours truly narrating some of my experiences. I’d like to somehow interject myself into the culture. I think this would be fun. I’m not sure what that looks like yet. Randomly, I have this image in my mind of myself in a white Mexican dress, with a sombrero on, and no shoes riding a mule. Lol!
Another benefit of this project is that it will also serve as a keepsake for me showcasing my trip to Mexico. It will be something that I can look back on, and think about the memories.
I don’t have a title for my work yet. At this point, I feel that giving the project a title would be too obvious. I typically come up with the title last because I like to get the creative juices flowing and then allow the project to somewhat go where it wants to go. I find it best to leave a little leeway in the creation process because the creation, for me, often changes and evolves from what I thought it was going to be, into what it is actually supposed to become.
The central ideas that surround and are important to this work are photography, culture, travel, experience, adventure, art itself, and the beauty of seeing new places and new things for the first time. This is something that we should all continue to do throughout life. At this point I find delight in the idea that, I don’t exactly know the precise detail of this project. I can’t wait to see what inspires me. It will be a surprise, but I will know when I see it!
There is a quote that I remember hearing from early in the class that really spoke to me. I can’t remember if it was in a reading or not. But I kind of think it may have been one of yours. It went like this, “the job of an artist is to express the world we live in. It’s your story to tell.” So, quite fittingly, that’s what I plan to do.
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