Working Project Proposal

This past October, I began working on a long-term project involving my dad, which touches on our relationship as well. I would like to continue working on this project throughout the semester in our class. An endeavor, that as with last semester, definitely presents some challenges considering our geographic distance.

I photographed my dad’s artwork and family photographs with a 4x5 camera making the images my own. I also combined these photographs with related new works. Most recently this project was printed in various sized large prints, as well as, printed and pasted throughout a Bible on relevant pages.

The subject of this project is my dad with an extension of our relationship. I have a vast family photo and 8mm movie archive at my disposal. As I move forward with this project I am very interested in investigating the several other medias or possible forms: video, installation, and even creating a quilt from the photographs.

I want to investigate converting the reels of 8mm film to a digital format. How can I do that? I know it can be sent to companies for large sums of money, but as a student, an artist is there another way?

I’ve been looking at Mark Wyse, Kiki Smith Jason Lazarus, and Leslie Hewitt. Please suggest more artists.