More six word memoirs

Here is a website which puts images with these memoirs, something in which I hope to to...link http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2008/02/memoir/gallery/index.html


I've asked some of my friends to give me some six word memoirs or sentences....here's what they came up with...

woke, ramblembed, and then haha.

Yes, I still long for yesterday.

I failed, but still hope prevails.

This battle is only with yourself.

A victim of my immediate surroundings.

Such tiny instances breed huge consequences.

Punished by my own high standards.

Ignore the past, simply run fast.

Far too quick like a sunrise.

I'm here for no apparent reason.

I'm looking forward to going back.

Is this what the future holds?

I questioned everything, but learned nothing.

Happiness comes from those around me

What I love is watching neighbours.

My past will always be memorable.

My life is plain for all to see.

Life consists of ebbs and flows.

Years beyond seventy are a bonus.

come and go, like the tide.

This will all make sense someday.

I am as I shall always be.

Good will prevail, in delicate detail.

Hope my career is in horror.

Change, Hope, Music, Love, Isolation, Laughter.

Change is like a refreshing drink.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

My life is on my walls

Memories are ephemeral, nothing lasts forever.

Where did it all go to?

Thought I would know by now.

The eye sees if the heart agrees

Laughter is the oil in friendships

There will be days like this.

My thought of process has gone.

Loneliness is the absense of relationships.

I am always half a person

my life is one perpetual monday

Life's a dream, we're the sleepers

Daydreaming will not get you far

Video Pieces

I would like the video pieces to be an extension of what I am exploring in my photographic works. Exploring what we experience and manipulating imagery through different techniques. Also the imagery being shot would be everyday occurances, maybe even introducing some surreal like elements such as over exposure and reversal. The videos I have uploaded onto my blog already would be things to reference with how I would like to explore this idea.

Ephemeral

ephemeral \ih-FEM-er-ul\, adjective:
1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; as, an ephemeral flower.
2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.


the experiences in my photographs are ephemeral. they evoke memoirs of experiences only

Six Word Memoirs

Here are some examples of some six word memoirs I found on the internet. www.sixwordmemoirs.com
The idea all came about when Hemingway was challenged to write a story in only 6 words, his response was... For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Other peoples responses include:

Never really finished anything, except cake.

I'm ten, and have an attitute.

Anything with an electric chord is possible.

Danced in fields of infinite possibilities.

My reach always exceeds my grasp.

Thought I would have more impact.

Everyone who loved me is dead.

I still make coffee for two.

She kissed me and said yes.

Fourteen years old, story still untold.

Slightly psychotic, in a good way.

Near death experience is my forte.

I love to love my love.

Group Tutorial

Some ideas which I liked from the group tutorial...

I liked the ideas people had of making some of the photos really abstract, like the manipulation of the way we see and experience things.

so, taking images...making them abstract. Using underwater camera and techniques. Using different material to look through the lens, example, liquids, cling film, fairy liquid on glass, magnifying glass, looking through different objects. Light coming through water, crisp packets. Printing on accetate would be a good way to realise the work. Experimenting with hue and saturation, lighting, focus, all the camera techniques really....photocopying an image, rephotographing it and photocopying again, see how that manipulates the photo.

Another idea I had was to encorporate stories to juxtapose with the photos, as to construct some sort of narrative. An ambiguous narrative perhaps. I was told about this six word memoir fad in which people had to tall their life story in six words. So maybe I will research into that and see if I can relate some human experiences into six word memoirs and encorporate that into my work...


So how do I tie all this together??

....construction of narrative based on human experience...relation to phenomenology in which is the study of different typres of experiences ranging from perception, thought, memory, imagination, emotion, desire, volition to body awareness, embodied action, social activity and linguistic activity.....using different photographic techniques to construct ambiguous and abstract images which relate to daily existence, hoping the outcome will be dreamlike, fragile, atmospheric, and will evoke emotion and remembrance.

I don't want all the images to be abstract however, I would like to juxtapose them with many other images which are clear and simple, i think this would add a broader aspect to the work in the sense that the abstract images could be more personal and the images which are clear are easy to relate to, but the viewer could interpret the abstract images to what it reminds them of, so the work could be quite relational.


What are the images I want to take?

New Photos

I've finally gotten around to taking some photos of my own. I've taken some which may seem blurry and out of focus, this is to heighten the feeling of ambiguity and subtleness.I don't think these are the greatest pictures ever...I'm just kind of experimenting at the moment, it's the idea firstly that I want to try and get across and then hopefully things will fall into place the more and more I take more photos and find the right images. It seems like theyre very random, but i chose it to be like this, I'm not sure which photos are best juxtaposed together, but as i said this is just the experiment stage.
Im not sure if they give a sense of atmosphere or if they develop narratives with each other, but I hope that during the process of my final outcome I will learn to get across the emotion, narrative, atmosphere, surreality..and everything else I wish to evoke in my work. This is just the building blocks for now...comments appreciated!!!

Phenomenology

During my joint course we've been discussing a bit of philosophy which I find quite intruiging. I think it would relate closely to my work. I have been doing some reading up on it, and here is an excerpt from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy....

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/ (page)

The discipline of phenomenology may be defined initially as the study of structures of experience, or consciousness. Literally, phenomenology is the study of "phenomena": appearances of things, or things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience things, thus the meanings things have in our experience. Phenomenology studies conscious experience as experienced from the subjective or first person point of view. This field of philosophy is then to be distinguished from, and related to, the other main fields of philosophy: ontology (the study of being or what is), epistemology (the study of knowledge), logic (the study of valid reasoning), ethics (the study of right and wrong action), etc.

In recent philosophy of mind, the term "phenomenology" is often restricted to the characterization of sensory qualities of seeing, hearing, etc.: what it is like to have sensations of various kinds. However, our experience is normally much richer in content than mere sensation. Accordingly, in the phenomenological tradition, phenomenology is given a much wider range, addressing the meaning things have in our experience, notably, the significance of objects, events, tools, the flow of time, the self, and others, as these things arise and are experienced in our "life-world".

Basically, phenomenology studies the structure of various types of experience ranging from perception, thought, memory, imagination, emotion, desire, and volition to bodily awareness, embodied action, and social activity, including linguistic activity. The structure of these forms of experience typically involves what Husserl called "intentionality", that is, the directedness of experience toward things in the world, the property of consciousness that it is a consciousness of or about something. According to classical Husserlian phenomenology, our experience is directed toward — represents or "intends" — things only through particular concepts, thoughts, ideas, images, etc. These make up the meaning or content of a given experience, and are distinct from the things they present or mean.

The basic intentional structure of consciousness, we find in reflection or analysis, involves further forms of experience. Thus, phenomenology develops a complex account of temporal awareness (within the stream of consciousness), spatial awareness (notably in perception), attention (distinguishing focal and marginal or "horizonal" awareness), awareness of one's own experience (self-consciousness, in one sense), self-awareness (awareness-of-oneself), the self in different roles (as thinking, acting, etc.), embodied action (including kinesthetic awareness of one's movement), purpose or intention in action (more or less explicit), awareness of other persons (in empathy, intersubjectivity, collectivity), linguistic activity (involving meaning, communication, understanding others), social interaction (including collective action), and everyday activity in our surrounding life-world (in a particular culture).