Bridge 2: Peer to Peer

Bridge 2 Project: Peer to Peer

For this bridge project, I wanted to take an idea from my interview with a classmate and translate it into a single image that relates to a greater issue nowadays.
My background is primarily in digital work, so I knew I wanted to use Photoshop for this project.

Because the idea of traveling and moving from place to place is a big part of the memoir I edited together, I decided to make a visual + text piece based on the notion of “home,” and what it means.  I liked the idea of illustrating how anywhere can be a “home,” and it doesn’t matter where you live, as long as you care about the space.  This is especially topical now because everyone is stuck in their houses, many in unfortunately negative situations.

For the photo itself, I took a bunch of stock photos from “Pexels” and created a composite image of a larger house made of a ton of other houses on the water, set in a polaroid frame, with a caption and a date.

I can’t really think of or describe my specific creative process for this project.  It kinda just came to me immediately when I read the assignment, and how it relates to the original interview transcript.

I see this work as Critical Design because it takes an image of something we are all familiar with — a simple house — and flips it on its head by combining different types of architecture into one strange, nonexistent structure, placed in an environment that normally wouldn’t exist — a lawn on a dock in the woods over a body of water.   Additionally, it relates to the greater social issue mentioned above.

Here it is: