Culture Clash

Culture Clash

Through this project, I learned what DPI is and why the resolution matters when printing. A computer screen can only show 72 DPI. This means that it might come out a little fuzzy. If you change the resolution to between 150 and 300, the photo will print better. The result will look smooth and edges will be sharper. The challenging part of this project was finding good photos to use. There seemed to be a lot of close-ups and not a ton of subjects that would go well together. My end photo is a mash between Bejing, Italy, Spain, and Maine.

Portrait

Words

I write to remember what has happened

the good

the bad

the revelations

the locations

I write to know myself

my likes

my dislikes

my thoughts

my feelings

Shadow Play

Shadow

I took this photo on a very warm day.

I let my dogs out to roam around the yard while I photographed

and took a nap in the sun when I was finished.

My mother has many garden statues that are eclectic

separately

but together and precisely placed, look lovely.

I used a mermaid statue that sits on our porch steps

I put it a little off of a glass table to make the statue

seem like it's sitting on a shimmery rock or a planet

David Hockney

David Hockney is an artist who has produced pieces with multiple different mediums. He began with painting and drawing. He has made etchings, photographs, has designed multiple stage sets, and has made an art car. He has been working since the 1950s and grew with the changing pace of the world, he has most recently made a series of still-lifes using an iPhone painting app. He has taught at colleges all over the U.S. and has traveled all over the world.

Pearblossom Highway, 11-18 April 1986 | photographic collage

I chose this piece because I love how he cut up images he took of the road from different angles and put them back together in a cubist way. Cutting up the images also makes the sky more interesting and the contrast between the grey/brown land and the bright sky blue more pronounced. I like how the yellow line in the road doesn't look as cut up as the rest of the photo and how on the left side of the road you can't really see the difference of the dirt and the pavement. The way Hockney arranged the pieces of photos makes the road look like it's curving but it also looks straight. The photo as a whole looks mismatched but in a way that is pleasing to the eye.