Project Proposal– Lucy

Sorry for the delay! For some reason I had written down this was not due until this week, but I noticed everyone had posted one! My mistake!

I thought I would start of my Project statement with my working artist statement to give a sense of my general goals as an artist and my process:

I investigate cultural and visual mores in my work. Photography is the means by which I initiate this investigation. I work in series, within which repetition is used as a tool to reveal. Photographs act as a means of cultural investigation rather than an ends in my work. They become a mode of perception and query.

Using my own personal history as a basis for photographic inquiry, I use photographs as experiments in understanding. My technique melds the personal with the scientific in order better understand the enactment of human needs and nature.

Much of my recent work could be considered “experiments in understanding my family.” Photography has become a tool that I use to investigate my own misconceptions and questions about my own life and relationships.

I am interested in issues of familial relationships and familial mythology. I have done such past projects photographing my family’s own constructed mythology about our origins. I have photographed the desire to create childhood constructions in my home and the aging process of both my grandfather and his home.

I would really like to use this class to create new work, but also to curate my past work with current work to give myself a better understanding how my different series relate and speak to each other as parts of one larger body of work.

Specifically, I began to work on a project about my relationship with my sister last semester. In the project I use photography as a way to investigate our relationship, our history together and our understanding of relationship to each I would like to continue to work on this project. Additionally I have been photographically excavating my grandfather’s home in an effort to better understand familial origins. I believe that these two projects will converge and would like to get feedback on these two in progress series in this class.