THE BOOKS,

This project started with the plusweeks of year 1. I decided I wanted to deconstruct a book without really ruin the book. After I found out that this was not possible because of the glued back I decided to deconstruct it in another way. The way I had in vision to deconstruct this book was to dissolve the story.
To achieve this I took every page apart from each other and started reading it, when I read one page I started to mark things I did not know or I thought was interesting.

I started a research per page; I collected different kinds of things and printed it out. My plan was to connect this research to the pages of the book, so every page became a small research. This was my way of deconstructing a book because in a book the main priority is the story.

I continued this project during the last major of the first year. The purpose of this major was to continue with something you had really interest for. My first plan was to continue the whole book, this was to create a contrast with something I really like to do, but the time it would take to finish it would make me hate it. This was also a project to test my concentration curve because I know I have a bad concentration.

But instead of doing this I decBided to take another path, I planned on doing the opposite of what I was doing, so really deconstruct books. I would never do this normally because I have a real interest in books. I needed to really push myself doing this because I knew it would be good for me to do something I would never do normally.

I did eventually 3 different kinds of deconstructing a book; it felt really good after I was finished. It gave me a lot of inspiration on another project (which will be also discussed in this assignment).

THE PHOTO SERIE,

This project is an expansion on the deconstructed books; the purpose of this major was to continue with something you had really interest for. Because of the satisfying result of the deconstruction I wanted to involve this in to a photo series.

The plan for this was to use the beamer as my background but also as lighting source. My camera would react to the colors in the light of the beamer; this gave pretty spontaneous colors to the pictures. I projected pictures on the beamer screen and placed the model in front of it so the pictures will automatically been projected on the model. I also brought pieces of the book and attached it with water on to the model his face. This visualization stands for the ‘relation’ I have with the process and with books.

I think it is important to be able to change and grow within a project. I also wanted to reinforce my point in ‘Competence 2 - ability to reflect critically – Deconstructing books’ that changing in my process is not something to feel scared or insecure for, although I was in the beginning. It can give me new idea’s/inspiration for new projects and it will expand my working field.

There are some things in this project I would have done differently now, especially how I hold the camera in front of the model (not in all of the pictures, just a couple). Sometimes that gives me a feeling of failure but I did not fail at all. I have more knowledge now and my perspective changed within this project, which is certainly not failure, it means that u grew as an artist. This is something that has to be embraced instead of being put away, and this has been a huge eye-opener for me in this academy.

BOOKS