FINAL: Dirty Laundry

Process (prototype)

Inspiration from studio/seminar

My inspiration finally came through upon developing my final diptychs and the taxonomies. I was scrambling initially, but making those pieces helped me narrow down my topic and what I wanted to speak about. Visual Culture, to me and based on what I’ve learned this semester, is a set of understandings and connotations understood the many. What Visual Culture means is the dichotomy between how someone can perceive something as part of the whole and as an individual.

Reflection

Something I learned what how certain things can become more interrelated with time. On a surface level, all of the assignments we did this semester built up one after the other – meaning that they all work from the last one. I think this is a particularly unique principle in relation to my final installation piece. Seeing the silver “lining” through my work and all of the visual components was a large skill that we learned this semester. Being able to build a visual database, established through a lens of research, analysis, and soul-searching, was the takeaway from studio and seminar.

Conclusion

My biggest difficulty was nailing a concept down that spoke to my work this semester. I went through many iterations that involved balancing my own interests and mediums I wanted to pursue with the assignment parameters. I think visually it was pleasing and made sense in the grand scheme of the things based on the placement of each semiotic objection. However, I wish there would have been a further integration of materials – most of it boiled down to prints/photos and real clothes. I wish there were more objects that occupied that middle-ground space. If I had more time on this project, I would have created more objects that were unique and further pushed the “dirty laundry” metaphor. The most satisfying was watching the entire project come together and putting the clips on the line and watching it stay up – essentially, watching everything come together as planned. It was the final outcome, the final payoff that was the most satisfying component of this project for me.

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