Assignment 23: Can a Wrapped Object be Art?

In my work, I use lace to wrap two hands. I think hands are the most creative thing of a person so if I wrap one person's hand, and her hand also looks like she is praying, that shows she wants to get out of the wrap to free her belief. 

I think thinking about what to wrap is a hard thing. First, I think about wrapping a brush pot, but I do not have something like aluminium foil to show the line of the brush pot, so I give up. Then I think about wrap a person's hand with paper but that does not show well so I think about just wrap by lace and put in lightroom to make this black and white.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude did not just wrap one thing, they think about the creativity of one object and they try to use different colored wrapped things then wrapped one project by that thing to make that object more creative and more artistic. That can be why they called their works landscapes.

Assignment 25 - Now I see you, now I don't…self portrait without you.

Assignment 24 - TED Talk: How Photography Connects Us

David Griffin started his presentation by showing some famous photographers' photos, he introduces one photo from an amateur photographer that has been posted on the magazine, and he says everyone will have one or two greatest photos in their life and photographers need to make their photos great all the time. David Griffin shares his experience with his son that he remember as a photo in his memory that is different from his son's memory, that shows everyone's memory photos can be different based on how they see one thing.

David Griffin says one photographer need to make their photos alive and they need to use their photos to record things, their photos should be storytelling. David Griffin shows photos from photographers that spend long time in one place to know that place and people and their photographs show what live people will not think about. Like how people kill elephants just for their ivory; the cute living mode of seals and people's life in slums.

I agree with David Griffin, one photograph should not just be a photo, it should show the life story of your photograph. I think what storytelling photographs want to show in the photograph should be easy to know by people and they can change people's thoughts on that things.

Assignment 22 - Nine X Nine

Sketchbook 9. Only black things

Assignment 20: How to see double using nothing but your DSLR

Assignment 21: Photographing the Abstract