Cydnii Jones
Crit #5 - Mid-Year Review Practice
I'm happy with these final images I've come to for this critique. As I've mentioned in some of my other blog posts, I see certain narrative threads arriving in the work, and I'm particularly happy with the ways I've been able to shift focus back towards self with explorations in self portraiture, complimented by portraits with my family that speak to a tension, and push and pull family dynamic that is definitely one of those threads.
A couple issues that came up in the work for me, is that I felt like I was loosing myself in this narrative. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback on the images with my family, but I still want this to work to lead back to self and my inner world.
Another thing I'd like to work on is finding ways to make my work more conceptual and less representational or "on the nose." I want there to be an emotional current, but not rely too heavily on symbols or literal imagery. Any suggestions for technical or conceptual methods I could employ to improve this work would be greatly appreciated. I already plan to reshoot some of the images with more intention to lighting and framing.
I definitely know I want to explore more abstract interpretations of these themes, alternative processes, and more self portraiture. I'm particularly excited by the still life/altar building process I've begun to explore in the final image.