[Experimental] Always Look On the Brighter Side In Life : Mitsuki

JohnKokWithAdSLR

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Constructive C & C welcome

Sorry about the small pictures, bigger ones can be found at the full length of my experimental work

Artistically Scientific Side of Things

As an artist, my work is about expressing a person’s character using impressions generated from photos and words and piecing them together to form a bigger picture.

Rather than on a per-picture basis, kindly consider my work through an overall point of view.

My experimental series can be found here

I would be grateful for any feedback at all as they are valuable for my experiment’s progress. Thank you ;-)

JohnKokWithAdSLR

Experimental Concept

My artwork is about combining all of the impressions from of all of the photos of the model. In every set I have more than 30 photos, all displayed in a specific format arranged to simulate the layout of a Triptych (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptych) but modified to for website publish

Another example can be those of Egyptian wall art


Other words you must consider all of these photos plus the words in my article about the model for it to work. Its sort of like a macro scale kind of thing.

My experiment is about being able to accurately express a person using this means.


Approach

I capture my subjects exactly as they are despite what she says about herself and what she does in the pictures

I minimize my influence and bias in the subject by providing minimal direction and art guidance, hence minimizing influence contamination.

Everything in the photos, everything in each word and sentence belongs to the subject and none of mine.

All of this raw data is completely up to the audience to process and interpret to their heart’s content =D

Telling me your interpretation will definitely help me a lot ! So please do

As for the background and place i choose, this sort of captures an element of fate to my work. Its like it is fate that we have to shoot at this place at this particular moment ( i hope i am making sense )

Dreadnote

In the Egyptian art work, which looks to be a small part from the "book of the dead", an Egyptian is standing before the seat of judgement. The bird headed god is Thoth, the god of wisdom. Anubis (the jackal headed guy), the god of the underworld, is weighing the heart to see if it is lighter than the "feather of truth". If it is the individual will be judged to be pure and will go on to eternal life in the afterworld which is depicted by those sitting up top and denoted by the "solar disc" above their heads which indicates divinity and immortality (remember, the chief god of the Egyptians was Amun Ra, the sun god). If the heart is not found to be lighter than a feather, then the poor Egyptian will be immediately devoured by the lion headed god whose name is Tefenet (least wise I think it is, been a long time). Anyway, this depiction details the very complex and intricate funerary rites of an ancient people, and has followed us down through the ages. The concept of heaven and hell, life after death, immortality and so on have been copied, shared, borrowed, and passed on through all of the worlds cultures, and to this day can be seen in modern American icons like the Statue of Liberty who wears the rays of the sun around her head (reminiscent of the egyptian "solar disc") and whose face was modeled after the greek goddess of wisdom Athena. There are numerous examples. Anyway, not to labor the point, if you would, explain the connection between the egyptian artwork and the photos again...