Lighting Workshop: Final Project (work in progress)

This project is inspired by Erwin Wurm.

contact sheets so far:

 

Artist Lecture: Scott Schnepf

Daumier; "Rue Transnonain"

 Scott Schnepf came to the MOA to talk about the work by Daumier that is hanging up at the museum. First he talked about the origins of lithography. It was discovered in 1798 as a limestone accident in German and they discovered that because water and grease had different effects, images could be transferred with this idea that one medium could stick to paper and another medium cannot. Scott talked a little more about what Daumier did in his early career days, preparing stones for about 5 years at a lithograph shop. Later he became a cartoonist and sooner or later, he became one of the most famous printmakers, making around 4,000 lithograph prints in his lifetime.

After the short bio on Daumier and lithography, Scott led us to the print-making shop and demonstrated the lithography process. Each stone costs about $500-$2000 depending on how big the stone is. As he was demonstrating the process, it reminded me of the darkroom process because of how many different steps you have to take in order to finally get an image onto a piece of paper. He also made many variations of the print, adding more ink each time, which is sort of what darkroom is like because we have to make many test strips, with each strip having different time exposures under the enlarger.

Lighting Workshop: Narrative (final)

 

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This project is an exploration of the various sides of me that pull me in conflicting directions.

They are haunting most of the time, as if they are skulking behind my every move.
These photographs represent a depiction of my struggling efforts to escape
all the various obligations and expectations that people have for me,
in addition to the ones that I have for myself.