Photography Experiment

(Photography experiments produced by Myself)

    I thought as a research development, I should experiment with a new process and that being, photography. I have seen many magazines and photo shoots which have used similar settings/tactics, for this experiment I used my own hand, warm water and milk. The milk is to add murkiness to the water and I wanted this to represent the loss of memory and perspective; even though the hand is still physically there, it is not the same and is becoming lost. I think this shoot had a lot of sentimental value to my theme and from past research, this relates very well. I wanted to express how the people that see a person with dementia are very vulnerable from what they see, but they do not know how much that person has lost and that they may not be the same person they used to be. Although, on a brighter side this could be seen as the dementia patient coming out from the murky water and trying to reach out and retrace their steps and this could be a form of a trigger memory such as a photo, sound, taste and much more. On top of this, the reason I added my own hand was to make it much more personal considering I don't actually know anyone with dementia, but it is my own fear seeing that I can loose myself without noticing, such as my hand above sinking into the murky water. If I could have done anything differently with this, I would have liked to have completed a full body scale version of this process using water and milk, nonetheless I can think of many other ways to use this experimentation for now and perhaps go back to it later.

      It would be very interesting to see how I can push this process into another by developing it further, not to mention that this photography could also heavily inspire myself for my final photo shoot at the end of my Final Major Project (FMP). In addition to this, I would like to try and exhaust these images on photoshop and see how much I can change their overall look or perhaps the emotion within the photo.  Overall, the next stage for me would to keep going with my research and perhaps look at artists. Surprisingly, I didn't find an artist or designer who did a similar experiment to this particularly but it will be interesting to find someone similar. An artist I am keen to research is, Francis Bacon who I think relates well to this process with the blurring faces and the 'unknown'. Moreover, I need to go back to my Copenhagen research that I carried out about a week ago and see if there is anything that I can work from there.