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During this project I developed my craft by doing this I haven't done in any of my other projects. I had to reach out to people to collect photo submission and edit those photos using photo shop and I developed techniques in tracing those photos and adding the detail using shading and mark making. I used the light pad to trace them. Once I completed these I then developed an understanding of how to do matting and how to make the photos doubled sided. Once this was done I then had to experiment with ways to get my photos to hang against the wall using string, tape, and paper clips.

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I had to really look at my piece while working on it especially when tracing because I had to pay attention to the detail and when measuring for matting so that they would be the same size and I'd cut in the right place.

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I really struggled at first with creating something to have people submite photos probably because I'm not very social and I've never had to do it before and then I was struggling with communicating on how I wanted to photos to be printed because I didn't know much about photo printing and then I really struggled with measuring for matting because for some reason I had a hard time wrapping my head around the inches and where to make the marks. I've never been good at measuring.

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Throughout the project I would envision what my project would look like step by step and how the process of doing it would look. For example, I was imagining how I wanted the photos to look after editing them and and how the illustrations would look after I'm done and finally how they would look being hung up. I'd also envision people going up to them and flipping them around what their reaction would be.

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I wanted to express the idea that we should appreciate those around us. That even though with selfies and social media we often become self obsessed we should bring some focus onto those around us and what they do for us and what we can do for them and others. This is why I wanted people to send pictures of people that they find important to them and describe things about them. I wanted to get people thinking about positive influences in their lives.

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In order to really understand the art world I had to do some research. I had to research other installation projects as inspiration and I had to research how to trace and how to make my installation visually appealing without overdoing it. I was looking up illustrations to see what styles looked good. I also used my art teacher (Mrs. Marsh and Mr. Plymire) as a resource to learn how to do matting.