project goals/progress

For the Film 202 project, my goal is to represent two seperate images on one sheet of paper that blend in to one another as a reflection. The point of the piece is to represent the a picture displayed in two different lights as a reflection of each consuming the limits of the page. Though I'm still researching, it's been a little difficult to find the appropriate artists to study and investigate for such a vision.

I have talked with a few art majors concerning my project and the suggestions have ranged anywhere from the study of light artists to the luminist era. Though the quality and beauty have well been represented in this area of history, there isn't much of a combination of blending and reflection involved (at least not in the idea I've imagined). There is much color and detail in most of the work, but there's a basis of similar structure in the two images that I look to create...a body of water (ocean) and the sky above it in a reflective blending tone; almost one consuming the other. I am hoping to make the images so similarly drawn that at times could be indistinguishable from each other.

The colors will indeed be uniquely different and will hopefully complement the other through the overall tone and structure of the images; ocean currents and cloud movement. This will be the tricky part; trying to make them as distinctly similar as possible without being overly ostentatious. What I mean is by paralleling the images I hope to add continuity to the work, but still maintain the features that are characteristic of the two.

I am hoping to speak with an art professor this week about these concerns and also visit some exibits/galleries/museums if that's necessary. My interest in this area was generated from both my personal interest and growth in Art, but also from a couple of films viewed in class (most notably Shino Kano's "Rocking Chair") that symbolize a number of images viewed and revealed from different angles and lighting. Hopefully I'll have time to generate some observations in other films and perhaps photography to help create this puzzling effect.