Thesis: Life Events

Tonight, opening in DAAP Galleries is our DAAPworks. We have survived. We have finished. This culmination of our undergraduate careers opens for five days, then closes to make itself history. Can all of our hard work and late nights be summed up in one show? I for one, know that the work I have hanging in the gallery right now, in no way reflects the rest of the work I have done in my four years at DAAP. I have learned so much, but mostly, I learned to survive. Survive the terrible teachers. Survive the long critiques where no one likes your work. Survive the endless list of deadlines and due dates. We have come this far, and no one can stop us now. Here's to the University of Cincinnati's Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Fine Arts Class of 2014.

Event Strips

What I'm working on right now is my thesis. I am exploring hoe we all have the same memories, and therefore the photos we have from growing up reflect those memories. I am finding similar photos and displaying them in chronological order, at the height that I would have been at the age in the photo. For example, the photos of the mother and baby are 19 inches tall, because the average baby is 19-20 inches at birth.

Work in progress thesis, Spring Semester

My work has been changing. For so long I wanted to layer images, and I have been, but perhaps it's time for a change. What I am doing now is taking photos of my own and inputting them into visual search software to find images that are the same. We have the same memories, we have the same photos.

There are 23 photo groups.

This post includes the gif forms of each group.

Eventually, I will be working with a process called lenticular printing where all the images are put through a program and printed, then covered with a special lens that will make the 2-D image look like an animation. It will be kind of like these gifs, but each image will be viewable at a different angle.

Facebook: text vs. image

How often do we add a caption to the photos we post on Facebook? Is the photo not enough to stand alone? I took all of the photos I have posted on Facebook and superimposed their captions, so they can battle between which is more important: the image or the text?