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Twenty-One Portraits in Five Boxes

Blogger was down yesterday morning.

I worked through the night starting Thursday at 2000 and completed the project Friday at 900.  Yesterday after an last minute call to a trustee meeting I hung the project in the basement of the Bowdoin College Visual Arts Center.  I plan to photograph the installation soon.

Finished Boxes:

(incident lighting only)

Draft Prints:

Taking a Break

Nessie, Amy and Tom

Colors need fixing - but they represent what I'm aiming for here.

The Woodshop Was Locked...

 

2nd redesign

sketching kob

Preliminary

Tom

Coco

Redesign

Sam Samore

{via}

Samore's photographs are strikingly similar to some of the work that I've been moving toward.  He has also produced word portraits on transparent surfaces.

I place words on transparent surfaces — like windows, mirrors, screens, curtains — by way of etching, silk-screen, sandblasting, vinyl letters, paint. Let me tell you about them. In Descriptions I collect information from various sources in the manner of a content analysis. I compile endless lists based on ethnicity; sexual preference; chest-waist-hip measurements; age, height and weight data; adjectives describing personality and body features. Through the language of "objective" classifications I construct someone from the reservoir of my own subjectivity. And perhaps my friends look at the same material and build someone different. Like a portrait painter, like a biographer, in Portraits I research one individual. I gather information from press conferences, hagiographies, talk shows, psychological case studies, autobiographies. Sometimes I can interview this person, and with their permission talk with their acquaintances. Sometimes I present a group of words as in a survey and you select the adjectives that best represent who you are. In the end, I arrive at a list of words about this person. {via}

It is surprising to find such a similar type of alternative portraiture, and I am considering the implications of layering words.

Stop Motion

I know Meg's class was working on these - I particularly like this work by Architect Guillermo Cameron Mac Lean.  Of course if he was really playing Tetris all of the rows would be gone - a more accurate design would be missing at least one cube from each row. {Via}

Backlit Shadow Box Plans

Created Using Google Sketchup

sketch

My Models

Tom 

KOB

Coco 

Layering Sketch

Space-Time Grid

Potential Project Proposal

A grid suspended from the ceiling at head height.  Each of the four walls in each small box contains a photograph.

Moving along one axis of the grid moves you through space - for example, perhaps each of the five boxes depict images generated from 5 different locations on Maine Street.  Moving along this axis allows you to move from the intersection with Bath Road to Fort Andross.

The other axis is temporal - moving from box to box the images stay in the same location, but move through time.

Scale could be adjusted or nonlinear. This project could be expanded to factors other than space and time, but physically moving between the boxes lends itself to both of these dimensions.

Potential Problems:
     - Universal head height? (perhaps it could be adjusted depending on the viewer's height)
     - How close is too close for visual comprehension?
     - Lighting
     - Installation space

El Lissitzky inspired single images

Rephotography Target

I have an interest in rephotographing this image.

Life Magazine: Bowdoin College

Location:	ME, US
Date taken:	1957
Photographer:	Alfred Eisenstaedt
Size:	1280 x 850 pixels(17.8 x 11.8 inches)