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Statement

A window operating in a metaphorical capacity lets me into all sorts of imaginative viewpoints. A window equals a kind of perspective, but can act as an entranceway, or an escape hatch. It constitutes a way to let light in while inhibiting most of what else exists outside of the constructed space from coming inside.

Windows are like a look into someone's life. To me, it is unbelievable that other people are real and could possibly live their lives similar or different to mine. As I’m walking by the campus filled with students living in residence halls, I see a glimpse of someone else’s life through a glass plane. I think about how they have their own passions and love as well. I wonder what people think they walk by my window. Maybe they see my plants on my windowsill.

Artist reflection

Photography is one of the ways to show creative skills and life from a different outlook. There are several factors that determine the value of any image such as its color, lighting, creativity, its distinctiveness, background, charm, shooting time, shooting location, and the meaning that hides behind it. These are also the factors that differentiates an ordinary image from an impactful one. It is an art that helps in capturing beautiful moments in life and cherishes the future. It can be a natural scenery, a painting, an expression, a building, etc.

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The idea being my project is to convey a feeling of comfort and “homeness.” I put a photo of myself in the center of the cluster and surrounding me are things that I see when I think of home. Around me are various pictures that start with my home in Ann Arbor and then slowly turn into pictures of things and places I consider home at college. Home has changed for me over the past months, and I show that in the pictures because the setting changes. You can look at this work in various ways, I think the picture of me in the center is grounding and a good place to start.

Over the time I’ve spent in this class I feel like I have learned a lot about photography. Before taking this class, I didn’t know anything about how to use a camera, but now I am more comfortable using one. I feel that my final project does a good job of showing how I have learned to convey a mood through my photography, instead of just capturing an object or person.