Week Eight
In light of the current situation, it looks unlikely that I’ll be able to take this project home and photograph any new spaces as I had hoped to do over the Easter holidays. I’m really struggling to continue to be inspired by my student house. Obviously it’s not a particularly aesthetic space – but I guess finding beauty in ugly and ordinary things is the point in my project! So maybe this is exactly the challenge I need.
I really want to avoid this project just becoming an obvious documentation of a student house, as it’s been done so many times before. I want to hold on to the ideas and meaning I have established so far. Perhaps the situation with Covid-19 will become inspiration for my project. My peers mentioned picking up on feelings of sadness, being trapped, melancholy etc. when they reviewed my images; so perhaps the fact that we really are now trapped in our homes could tie in to my work nicely.
Overall, this week I just wanted to try and feel motivated again after experiencing what feels like a bit of a set back. So, as the title of this shoot suggests, I sort of just wandered around the house, photographing interesting things as and when they appeared in front of me. I’m not particularly fond of this shoot, there are a lot of bright colours that I don’t like and the subject matters aren’t particularly interesting. However, I think just picking up the camera anyway has helped me to get a bit of my motivation back.
I think a good next step would be to do some more visual research and continue to think about my final outcome. I also want my next shoot to have a more particular focus so that I feel I’m headed in the right direction again.
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