1) A huge improvement from your first scan-o-gram. I like how you stayed with the food idea and came up with a more complex, interesting item for the purple/blue sky. Purely formal.
2) I am not sure if this is technically a triptych, or if you put the book and tie on together. I hope it is a triptych. Again, I really like the new improved version. The book's title obviously holds importance when you consider the tie's "architecture" next to actual common architecture. I did, however, like the background of the former scan-o-gram, just for aesthetics.
3) You stuck to your guns on this and went simple. I think that is wise, as the photograph is quite simple. There is something really powerful and beautiful about such strong whites against strong darks. I don't quite understand the connection, though the colors suffice for me.
4) I am drawn back to the idea of architecture, physics, and math. This diptych screams Aaron Wolf with those ideas on top of photography. The yellow post it pattern confuses the viewer, yet makes him/her appreciate the mathematics beyond them that much more.
The second and last diptych called my attention the most. The colors in the "triptych" and the formal relations you are making with the tie and the text on the book. The white background I think helps emphasize what you seem to want the viewer to see. In the last one, the post it notes with the pattern and the notebook with the lined paper are perfect as a response to the photo of the house. Again the colors and relationships of the lines on the house and the notebook work well together.
In the first diptych, you do a good job of mirroring the colors of the digital photo and the scannogram. The blue of the pills is like that of the sky and the chips are almost the same yellow as the leaves. One thing I notice about all four of your diptychs is the simple and neat organization of both your scannograms and your digital photos - in each it seems that every part of the image is carefully placed (or shot as the case may be), and that nothing gets in that you don't want there. It seems selective, and in this scenario, I think it works nicely in that they are seemingly straightforward and intentional.
With the road and the pants, I think the arrangement is everything. It is like an ad for Apple. You have a HUGE arrow that stands out like nobody's business and directs our eyes toward the ipod. I'm fascinated by the fact that you used purple tones in the photo and greens in the pants. Perhaps because they're complimentary? It kind of shows in the color of the arrow and the color of the ipod. Would they look better with the same kind of white? Please make sure to keep getting all of your textures and strange angles in your photos. You almost didn't have textures here and I miss them!
The necktie, barn, and toward a new architecture.... I don't know how to respond to this diptych. Firstly, I have a hard time grasping he scanogram. It looks kind of like a page from a magazine. I suppose that's good because it reminds me that a scanogram can be anything we want it to be. Either way, I guess it took me a while to see what the two images have in common. What I see is the x on the barn door reflecting in the necktie and the incomplete window of the barn in the incomplete cover. There is some humor in "new architecture" and an old barn--especially since it's like you started saying "new archite---" and stopped mid-sentence because you suddenly realized that it's not new. Good humor. I just think you might have been able to find a better x than the necktie... Maybe it would have been funny to have the number 12 instead since the door has the roman numerals XII on it...
Your first and final diptych call the most attention to me. I really enjoy that in your first diptych, the colors in each composition are from opposite ends of the spectrum. The colors are really vibrant and opposing, yet manage to organically work together. I also would have never associated tree leaves with chips - I think that this comparison is very applicable, especially with crispy fall leaves coming around the corner. In your diptych, I think your photograph of the door is very theatrical. By comparing this image to something very monotonous like a notebook and post-its allows me to contextualize this door as a home. I also enjoy that it is hard for me to reconcile that this very theatrical door as just a home where something as boring (for me) could take place inside. Also, in the scan-o-gram, I really enjoy that it is incredibly organized (patterned post-its and notebook), but that the notebook is off-center.
For me three of the four (nos. 1, 2, 4) raise the question of the frame. With the scan-o-grams in the three not having a "frame" but rather allow items to "float" in white space it has the effect of drawing my attention to the items themselves, rather than the items as they would be "arranged" within a frame. It is a bit like encountering a drama troupe acting out a scene on the subway, which makes me uncomfortable - there being no formalized separation (proscenium) between actors and audience. The discomfort acts to focus my attention on what is not there, on an absence. For my money the fourth does the best at piquing my curiosity with the balance of obvious and implied formal connections being drawn between the two images. The top and third tip the balance toward the obvious and the second perhaps too much in the direction of the implied (to the detriment of coherence).
I do prefer the revision of the first diptych, however, I really did like the goldfish too! That image is also really beautiful, a nice variation on a "typical" fall leaves photo. While I do like images 2 and 3, they strike me as surprisingly corporate. I could see them both being advertisments for the various products featured in the scan-o-grams. The final diptych is really interesting in the way that the images have on relation at all, but work so nicely together. As a whole, the images are very formal and clean. You let the colors be central to the images, and i think that is great for this project!
I think the first and last diptych work best as a diptych. Each photo and scan-o-gram could easily stand alone and be a great photo, but the connections between them add even more to the effect. Your other two diptychs are nice, but not quite as strong. I love the photo of the arrow in your third, but I feel like the scan-o-gram doesn't really add anything to it. I just don't really see the connection in the second one. The tie looks great as a scan-o-gram, but it don't understand how it works to enhance the image as a whole.
i'm particularly drawn to the last diptych. I think the simplicity of its geometry is quite effective. Also, there's something about the color yellow in large quantities or standing alone that is especially powerful and lends a certain mood. You work with that nicely here. In the first diptych you again played with mainly formal and geometric qualities. I don't mind the simplicity of it and am glad you reserved the colors in the scanogram. I do like the way the items you use in the scanogram are recognizable. This adds a certain level of interest and humor to the diptych. I get what you're going for in number two, and like that the piece works on many formal and intellectual levels, but I think it would function a bit better if you played around with the layout a bit. As for the third one, I enjoy the use of symbols (the arrow and the apple) to tie the two together. The pairing makes a lot of sense to me but isn't anything I would've thought of or linked in my head.
I think the third diptych is what speaks to me the most of your images. I have to think about it- how the scanogram was made, what the significance of the arrow pointing to the scanogram is - and I really like that. However, I also liked your rough draft where the hand was pointing at the arrow, but maybe that was too literal. I see where you were going with the second diptych, but I think the lack of borders around the scanogram limits its success, and that it is just not as strong as the other three. I do love the variety of objects you used in your scanograms, and I find them very creative and thought-provoking on the whole. They intensify the photographs as well, and because I like the photographs as images, I think that the pairings make your work all the more successful.
1) A huge improvement from your first scan-o-gram. I like how you stayed with the food idea and came up with a more complex, interesting item for the purple/blue sky. Purely formal.
ReplyDelete2) I am not sure if this is technically a triptych, or if you put the book and tie on together. I hope it is a triptych. Again, I really like the new improved version. The book's title obviously holds importance when you consider the tie's "architecture" next to actual common architecture. I did, however, like the background of the former scan-o-gram, just for aesthetics.
3) You stuck to your guns on this and went simple. I think that is wise, as the photograph is quite simple. There is something really powerful and beautiful about such strong whites against strong darks. I don't quite understand the connection, though the colors suffice for me.
4) I am drawn back to the idea of architecture, physics, and math. This diptych screams Aaron Wolf with those ideas on top of photography. The yellow post it pattern confuses the viewer, yet makes him/her appreciate the mathematics beyond them that much more.
The second and last diptych called my attention the most. The colors in the "triptych" and the formal relations you are making with the tie and the text on the book. The white background I think helps emphasize what you seem to want the viewer to see. In the last one, the post it notes with the pattern and the notebook with the lined paper are perfect as a response to the photo of the house. Again the colors and relationships of the lines on the house and the notebook work well together.
ReplyDeleteIn the first diptych, you do a good job of mirroring the colors of the digital photo and the scannogram. The blue of the pills is like that of the sky and the chips are almost the same yellow as the leaves. One thing I notice about all four of your diptychs is the simple and neat organization of both your scannograms and your digital photos - in each it seems that every part of the image is carefully placed (or shot as the case may be), and that nothing gets in that you don't want there. It seems selective, and in this scenario, I think it works nicely in that they are seemingly straightforward and intentional.
ReplyDeleteWith the road and the pants, I think the arrangement is everything. It is like an ad for Apple. You have a HUGE arrow that stands out like nobody's business and directs our eyes toward the ipod. I'm fascinated by the fact that you used purple tones in the photo and greens in the pants. Perhaps because they're complimentary? It kind of shows in the color of the arrow and the color of the ipod. Would they look better with the same kind of white?
ReplyDeletePlease make sure to keep getting all of your textures and strange angles in your photos. You almost didn't have textures here and I miss them!
The necktie, barn, and toward a new architecture.... I don't know how to respond to this diptych. Firstly, I have a hard time grasping he scanogram. It looks kind of like a page from a magazine. I suppose that's good because it reminds me that a scanogram can be anything we want it to be. Either way, I guess it took me a while to see what the two images have in common. What I see is the x on the barn door reflecting in the necktie and the incomplete window of the barn in the incomplete cover. There is some humor in "new architecture" and an old barn--especially since it's like you started saying "new archite---" and stopped mid-sentence because you suddenly realized that it's not new. Good humor. I just think you might have been able to find a better x than the necktie... Maybe it would have been funny to have the number 12 instead since the door has the roman numerals XII on it...
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ReplyDeleteYour first and final diptych call the most attention to me. I really enjoy that in your first diptych, the colors in each composition are from opposite ends of the spectrum. The colors are really vibrant and opposing, yet manage to organically work together. I also would have never associated tree leaves with chips - I think that this comparison is very applicable, especially with crispy fall leaves coming around the corner.
ReplyDeleteIn your diptych, I think your photograph of the door is very theatrical. By comparing this image to something very monotonous like a notebook and post-its allows me to contextualize this door as a home. I also enjoy that it is hard for me to reconcile that this very theatrical door as just a home where something as boring (for me) could take place inside. Also, in the scan-o-gram, I really enjoy that it is incredibly organized (patterned post-its and notebook), but that the notebook is off-center.
For me three of the four (nos. 1, 2, 4) raise the question of the frame. With the scan-o-grams in the three not having a "frame" but rather allow items to "float" in white space it has the effect of drawing my attention to the items themselves, rather than the items as they would be "arranged" within a frame. It is a bit like encountering a drama troupe acting out a scene on the subway, which makes me uncomfortable - there being no formalized separation (proscenium) between actors and audience. The discomfort acts to focus my attention on what is not there, on an absence. For my money the fourth does the best at piquing my curiosity with the balance of obvious and implied formal connections being drawn between the two images. The top and third tip the balance toward the obvious and the second perhaps too much in the direction of the implied (to the detriment of coherence).
ReplyDeleteI do prefer the revision of the first diptych, however, I really did like the goldfish too! That image is also really beautiful, a nice variation on a "typical" fall leaves photo. While I do like images 2 and 3, they strike me as surprisingly corporate. I could see them both being advertisments for the various products featured in the scan-o-grams. The final diptych is really interesting in the way that the images have on relation at all, but work so nicely together. As a whole, the images are very formal and clean. You let the colors be central to the images, and i think that is great for this project!
ReplyDeleteI think the first and last diptych work best as a diptych. Each photo and scan-o-gram could easily stand alone and be a great photo, but the connections between them add even more to the effect. Your other two diptychs are nice, but not quite as strong. I love the photo of the arrow in your third, but I feel like the scan-o-gram doesn't really add anything to it. I just don't really see the connection in the second one. The tie looks great as a scan-o-gram, but it don't understand how it works to enhance the image as a whole.
ReplyDeletei'm particularly drawn to the last diptych. I think the simplicity of its geometry is quite effective. Also, there's something about the color yellow in large quantities or standing alone that is especially powerful and lends a certain mood. You work with that nicely here.
ReplyDeleteIn the first diptych you again played with mainly formal and geometric qualities. I don't mind the simplicity of it and am glad you reserved the colors in the scanogram. I do like the way the items you use in the scanogram are recognizable. This adds a certain level of interest and humor to the diptych.
I get what you're going for in number two, and like that the piece works on many formal and intellectual levels, but I think it would function a bit better if you played around with the layout a bit.
As for the third one, I enjoy the use of symbols (the arrow and the apple) to tie the two together. The pairing makes a lot of sense to me but isn't anything I would've thought of or linked in my head.
I think the third diptych is what speaks to me the most of your images. I have to think about it- how the scanogram was made, what the significance of the arrow pointing to the scanogram is - and I really like that. However, I also liked your rough draft where the hand was pointing at the arrow, but maybe that was too literal. I see where you were going with the second diptych, but I think the lack of borders around the scanogram limits its success, and that it is just not as strong as the other three. I do love the variety of objects you used in your scanograms, and I find them very creative and thought-provoking on the whole. They intensify the photographs as well, and because I like the photographs as images, I think that the pairings make your work all the more successful.
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