Objects in Space

 

Most of these scenes are taken in my much-loathed windowless dorm of Fox Commons. I will admit many of these photos are a bit all over the place, but I generally wanted to experiment with a space I’m in every day, and reconfigure my very familiar object in surreal or just funny ways. I am especially happy with the first picture, with my computer monitor in the shower. I think it captures silliness, a minimalist aesthetic, and a bit of ominousness all at once and is a fun image (if only I had any idea how to take a technically well-done photo). I think the biggest realization this exercise brought forth was how fixed the objects in my personal space really were. When I moved in in January and unpacked, I found a place for everything, and that became completely cemented. Before today, my computer monitor hadn’t moved an inch, but now it's been in the shower, how neat is that? I obviously knew everything could be manipulated like this, but just being able to have that vision, I think is really helpful, especially for me as, in my own art historically, I’ve been a looker and a renderer, not really a super active and disruptive maker, and I really had a lot of fun doing so.

The last few images are from my visit back home in Minneapolis over the weekend, and while I took many more photos of the Walker sculpture garden, I decided to only include one (my favorite one) so as not to be too basic.