the positive about negatives

This past summer I spent a month at Kala Art Institute's Residency Program in Berkeley, California. I was accepted there for my work in alternative photographic processes. My goal was to use images that I had taken throughout the school year and print them on a cyanotype silk fabric. Ultimately, the images would come out looking like this:













(minus the wrinkles of course)

After some failed attempts at getting all my images to print out perfectly on this fabric, I began to just admire the images as they originally were, in negative form.

















































































































































The best part about photography is that you can look at the same image in so many different ways and have it mean so many different things.

holga adventures

Roll 1 of 2 from my adventures with Shlee, holga, and diana.

It feels SO good to have photography back in my life again. <3

wedding

Shlee and I shot our first wedding on September 19th in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Not only was it my first time shooting, but also my first time attending a wedding! Here are some of my favorite shots.

Holga

These are pictures from my first ever attempt at using a holga camera.
















"nyc building. 2007. 7 x 7 in."















"bridget. 2007. 7 x 7 in."




















"abandoned dcca no. 1. 2007. 7 x 7 in."




















"abandoned dcca no. 2. 2007. 7 x 7 in."


My roommate Shlee just ordered a diana camera which has inspired me to take out my dusty old holga and go on some photo adventures ( with a tripod this time! ).

R.I.P

An ode to our favorite ceramicist...

mini golf!

close up of the shack.

the culprit who threw away our beautiful masterpiece.

the greatest (delicate) artists to ever live.

before the death of polaroid

Tracy and I decided for our very first collabz that we wanted to work with the idea of polaroid transfers on ceramic pieces. We decided to photograph people eating random objects and place them on fancy dinnerware.




































We set it up as a classy dinner scene for two and had an impromptu/improvised fight. Unfortunately we do not have the hilarious video where we threw plates and bowls at each other but there are some photo stills.





















































The Aftermath.







































Definitely one of our more successful collabz!

performance based art

My collabz partner, Tracy Koronik, and I decided that last fall would be the semester of performance pieces.

We came up with this "brilliant" idea that we would fill water balloons with slip (watered down clay) and have our classmates throw them at us while standing behind a white sheet. In theory this interactive/performance idea was really cool, in reality it really hurt.













The sheet.


















This was about the distance our classmates were.













Some balloon fragments stuck to the sheet.














It was about 20 degrees out when we did this so the slip started to freeze.



















Close up of the slip crystals.


















The white Tyvex suits we both wore.


There is a video that goes along with this. I haven't decided if I want to post it or not because it was quite painful!