Shooting

Finally trying to shoot some of my ideas.. but it's not going too well. I only have a couple of ideas for scenes, and the one i've tried to see through properly has gone horribly horrily wrong.
I was trying to make a red food colouring river between hills of sugar. Sounds simple enough. Except the food colouring leaked into the sugar rather than creating a river (i *DID* try to use cling film to stop it, but it didn't want to be nice to me).
I then considered using some old shots i took of food colouring dispersing in water.. but they looked wrong bcause they were at the wrong angle (and can't really be taken from the right angle).
I also tried layering splatters of ink on paper over the image, but that also came out looking off, because either the splatters were too big, or you could see edges.

Some Old In With The New....

Some old ideas I haven't put down anywhere yet, since my ideas were going to quickly at the time-

Object Memories
- Having physical objects with each object having a few photographs printed onto them. Objects that came to mind were a glass, a box, a blouse. I wanted the juxtaposition of the objects to create stories, which the object would have been present for. The idea of the print being left on them related to the idea of the imprint of memories being left in our mind.

Story Book
-Having a photograph on each page, with a piece of text facing that described the image. The pages would create a story inspired by both the images, and research on psychology and emotions.

The Idea so far, and what I've been up to...

I've been thinking about the idea of the mind being a setting for a story, and considering how different sections might interact with eachother. I'm looking through this article on Phrenology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.Phrenology as researh for this.

I am not certain yet quite how I want to display my piece. I have considered the use of characters- as the personification of mental disorders (e.g. 'schizophrenia' or 'depression'), or alternatively as different functions (e.g. 'memory', 'visual awareness'), and how these characters might interact with eachother.

I have also considered these things as landscapes, rather than as characters. I have taken a couple of trips in the past week to try and photograph different landscapes for this purpose- so I have a selection of city and woodland images to work from.

Other Photography Foundation Blogs

These are the blogs of a couple of the other students in my Photography Foundation course:

http://hevlet.blogspot.com/

http://whingeandwhine.tumblr.com/

Poppy Shakespeare

I've just finished watching Poppy Shakespeare, a programme on 4od about someone who is admitted to a mental institute... dispite appearing perfectly sane. The story tells of what it does to her, and explores the idea of a currupt medical system, where the sane are kept in, and the ill thrown out of the hospital- all to make their success rate look good.

I find the journey we see from sanity to madness interesting. The confusion of having to prove you're insane to prove you're sane reminds me of Muchausen's syndrome (which i looked at briefly on 26th April) - the need to do harm to yourself to prove you're ill... when it's thought you're not.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/poppy-shakespeare/4od#2918423