Project Five: Landscape and Urban

Artistic Statement:

Part 1 (Top 3 compositions): While constructing the landscape pieces I was immediately drawn to water and wanted to incorporate the substance's ability to capture light and the textures that it creates. Not wanting to over use this element I also choose to use a mountain scene as well as a prairie environment. In these pieces I tried to create a sensation of vastness or depth so in the mountain landscape I tried to show the mountains vanishing off in the distance. I altered the size of the hay bales in the second composition to show that the prairie was expansive. I wanted to use a different focus of natural landscape for each piece so one focuses on minutia's, the other of openness of flat territory and the third focuses on water and the limited space of a canyon. 

Part 2 (Bottom 3 compositions): My first urban composition focused on making online photographs of different streets in NYC that were also taken from different angles work together. I played with the vanishing point within the piece moving it to different places to attempt to make a seamless cohesion. I also attempted to add my own graffiti and posters to the walls of the apartment buildings to create a more interesting environment.
In the second piece I wanted to incorporate as many people into the urban environment as possible and at the same time place these people in the most natural environment of a city, a park. The hope was to create awareness that even though people flock to the cities, a part of them wants to remain rooted in the country, etc. This composition was also a study on shadow and how to insert characters from different photographs into the composition and fit them in based off of light and dark shading. I choose to use the black and white filter because the colors of the shadows didn't work together as well as the black and white version. In the end I feel that the women feeding the pigeons is to dark, but this masks the other woman on the bench which I inserted into the piece and would also have to much contrast to the rest of the composition.