Project Notes

Five Touch Points
1) Moving from California to North Carolina
2)First Day of Middle School
3)First real concert
4)Graduating High School
5)College life

Major Touch Point
College life

Adjectives
New
Alone
Different
Freedom
Learning

*Different
Contrast
Beach and City
bird and a fish
culture

Brainstorming ideas
multiple photos or just two?
just one big contrast?
two pictures on one page to emphasize the contrast?

p.s. sorry these are both late I had some trouble posting at first.

Text Notes 1

William Kentridge

Why does he use charcoal to create his drawings and videos?
It lends itself to blending and reworking

Do all of his works deal with the political happenings in South Africa?
Yes and some that are just specific to him.

How does he create his videos?
He uses about twenty drawings the he adds to and erases to make a story.

Unlike our first project his inspirations comes from external sources instead of himself or his identity. The way he influences his characters in his artwork by real happenings in South Africa, like Nelson Mandela being released from prison, show how much he himself as well as the rest of South Africa.

Nan Golden

Why does she choose to take such raw pictures?
They are so raw because they are a documentation of her life.

Does she create a story with her pictures?
The pictures, because she takes them of people she knows throughout their lives, does in a sense become a story.

What made her choose photography to document her life?
She likes how photography is instant. Ever since she was a teen she liked to chronicle each day as it happened. Her sister's suicide also inspired her to do photography.

She uses photography to express herself which is what I would like to do one day after I graduate. She chooses to follow the outcasts and be one instead of trying to be normal like most people would. I admire that nothing is off limits and she will always take the picture in the moment. She wouldn't stage anything because that isn't real life.

Text Notes 1

William Kentridge

Why does he use charcoal for his medium in his drawings and videos?

It lends itself to erasing and reworking.

Do all of his works deal with the political happenings in South Africa?

Yes and events that have happened to him and everyone in South Africa.

How does he create his works?

He uses about 20 drawings that he adds to and erases from to make a story.

Unlike our first project his inspiration comes from external sources instead of himself or his identity. The way he influences his characters in his artworks by real happenings in South Africa, like Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, show how much he himself as well as the rest of South Africa is influenced by it.

Nan Goldin

Why does she choose to take such raw pictures?

The pictures are a documentation of her life

Does she create a story with her pictures?

The pictures, because she takes them of people she knows throughout their lives, does create a story in a sense.

What made her choose photography as her medium?

She likes the instant of photography. Ever since she was a teen she liked to chronicle each day as it happened. Her sister’s suicide also pushed her to take photographs.

She uses photography to express herself which I hope to do one day when I become a photographer. She chooses to follow outcasts and be one instead of trying to be normal like most people would. I admire that nothing is off limits and she will always take pictures and not trying to change what happened.