Kate Mitchall
For Kate Mitchell's lecture, I admire her ALL AURAS TOUCH work very much. In this collection, we take snapshots of contemporary Australia through the process of shooting the human energy field (Auras). "The aura photograph can articulate that we all exist in ways that we can't see or comprehend.(Kale,2020).I’m very interested in the fact that all portraits use colours, but each colour of aura can be regarded as a way of expression of mood. I think she uses colour metaphor to convey information to the viewer. She regards this aura as the energy field that sends a person. This is your aura, the energy that is emitted. These energies are composed of different colours, and these colors represent different emotional states. Mitchell believes that to go beyond the superficial level of what people do and show them literally from another angle. This is a duality, because we are our job and we are not our job.(Miekus,2020).
I think she challenges the diversity of photography, enlarging the effect of the photos, but lightening the subject of the characters and maximizing the effect of colour, and only up close can you find the portrait of the characters. Wilson believes that visually, they range from pastel hues to sometimes transparent to the opaque colour gamut that surrounds each person's portrait - they're very ethereal. The participant's face stands out from the colour, and the colour stands out, not dominates the person. There was a good relationship between the participants' faces and their surrounding gamut.(Wilson,2019).
Watching Mitchell in her documentary, we all live in an ecosystem of networks, yet we still unknowingly influence others in the way we continue to live. It is true that people in every different profession are changing others in their lives. I think that's why she needs to show the faces of more than 1,000 people from different professions, and maybe learn about their backgrounds in the process of taking pictures of them without even talking.
Kale,N.(2020, January 7). Sydney artist Kate Mitchell uses New Age 'aura photography' to capture portraits of Australian workers. ABC news. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-28/sydney-artist-kate-mitchell-new-age-portraits-australian-workers/11822846
Miekus,T.(2020, January 9).All Auras Touch.Art Guide. https://artguide.com.au/all-auras-touch/
Wilson, E. (2019, November 29). Kate Mitchell: All Auras Touch. Art almanac.
https://www.art-almanac.com.au/kate-mitchell-all-auras-touch/
Wimberley,Z.(2020). All Auras Touch [photograph].Art guide. https://artguide.com.au/all-auras-touch/