In this weeks work our activity was to complete a Peer commissioned Micro Project, we were to partner up and set each other briefs to fulfil taking inspiration from the content we had covered throughout the week. All the while keeping track of our creative thought process.
I paired up with Alexandra and this is the brief that I was set:
“Your brief is to produce up to 6 shots demonstrating the Yin and Yang of an object or subject or scene or something else.
The idea is to see the bright and the dark side or the good and the bad connected to your subject.”
My first steps was to research Yin and Yang, I then started to brainstorm what would be achievable in the couple of hours time frame that was suggested for this task.
I though of:
- Caterpillars vs Butterflies
- Medicine vs Drugs
- Love vs War
The idea I thought was achievable however went with the title “Every rose has its thorn”
Luckily I have a rose-bush in my garden and a very good florist locally. I was thinking about the softness of the flower and the sharpness of the thorns. The birth of a flower bud and the then the decay of the flower dying. Roses are stereotypically as sign of love given at weddings but also used at funerals. The beauty of the flower yet they can draw blood from you if your catch a thorn.
I then went exploring taking some preliminary pictures, some that I wasn’t particularly happy with so I tried again the next day and managed to get some I was more pleased with.
I decided to put together my work using both black and white and also colour so that there is a difference that can be looked upon.
Whilst the timeframe was quite small I did enjoy this project and hope I have fulfilled the brief somewhat.
Kirsty Logan Photography 