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This is a short video captured by myself and my boyfriend (Joshua McDevitt). This is serving as the inspiration point of the project, and the tonal reference. My plan is to capture more of these scenes with other gay couples to have a variety of videos to pull from for the installation.

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A rough reference sketched out in Premiere of the look of the found footage aspect of the installation. The intent is to have this chaotic collage be the resting state of the piece. As you move closer to piece itself, the video will begin to fly away away and reveal a quieter scene below.

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Sketching out the project.

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2 photos by Troy Otts

Graphic design and photographic work for a local ska-punk band.

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Previous photographic works.

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Some style inspiration. I’m attracted to pieces that use grain and artifacting as texture. 

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A source of tonal inspiration. The premise alone makes this short amazing.

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Another previous work from a sophomore video editing class at LSU. This time, a collaboration with Adam Tucker.

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A short video from my sophomore year in college. Something I would eventually like to iterate on, expand, and reimagine.

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Community

I want to belong to a community that fosters creativity and progress. A place where people support each other in their endeavors, and encourages expression of new ideas and processes. The kind of place where people buzz about a new art happening downtown one day, a new scientific endeavor the next, and a new business development for the future the next week. A place that thrives on the new and exciting. I want to see Baton Rouge become that place. I know it has the potential. I know people are itching for that change, and I want to be a part of it. 

A year out from now, I want to be developing my craft and experimenting with ways to monetize it to sustain my future. In the next five, I want to be on the path of change along with this city. Where a thriving community of artists and thinkers has just begun to bloom. And in the next twenty, I want to be planted in that community and proud to look back at the last two decades knowing that I contributed to that change by supporting other artists and thinkers, and being a part of a generation that wasn’t afraid of progression.