Project #5

Everybody has their secrets. Everyday people put up bigger and stronger fronts in order to shield all of their problems away from the rest of the world. One does not know what an individual has gone through, what they did, what the heard or spoke, but in some way they have touched another human being in some way. These days, Internet and technology has taken over almost every single aspect of the daily life. 

Now, everyone has the opportunity to talk to half the world all by just typing away on the keyboard. Yet no one really takes the time to think of what they are going to say or if even the truth will be said. Like in photography, a photo can mean a thousand different things. With stage constructed images, it shows one image and you can immediately state what the meaning or concept is behind it.

In Leo Manovich’s, essay The Paradoxes of Digital Photography, a point is made how all these new technologies has changed the way we develop our ideas and concepts in terms of photography. Digital photographs can be altered and manipulated to the point where the function of the photograph changes. It allows one to cover a blemish that should not be there and makes the lighting better and so on. However, relating this to people, like photography we have also become jaded. One makes it seem like they are completely different on the Internet rather than how they are in real life, and on average, we as a society seem to spend more time on the Internet meeting people, than one does in person. 

This digital revolution has been great in terms of developing skills in photography and beyond, but it has also strayed us from the truth. The concept of secrets, though not as thoroughly researched has helped me to discover things about myself and about the world I live in.

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I have also reworked the Photo Assignment, because I felt that it didn't express enough the concept that everyone has something that is so hidden, that it takes talking to to realize the story behind the person. 

Project # 4 - Performance Project

Yes, this is extremely late. I'm sorry. I haven't been doing/feeling well For the past three weeks or so.

Here is my Performance Project:

I was asked to carry out a performance based on a theme. This video contains me reading out various confessions that I had anonymously sent in through my formspring account and also several of my own. The flipping of the pages are the journals I had accumulated over the years and contain several stories and secrets that I had hidden away in them. People are full of secrets and the wonderful people who opened up to me makes me want to meet them. Watching this video, I hope that others will question who the holders of these secrets are and let each person take a deeper meaning into this.

Tal Vez

Project #2

So here are the photos/images for this project.enjoy :)

Piece of Found Media-1000 Journals

In August of 2000, One-thousand journals were sent out into the world. Whoever came across would fill out a page and then leave in a public location such as a park, a shop for the next person to come across it. In this journal you can put whatever you want a photohgraph, an actual journal, or a secret.

This project all started from a man who was fascinated by what people drew on bathroom stalls and in public spaces. Like it says on the site, "the goal is to provide a method for interaction and shared creativity amoung friends and strangers." Though there are 1000 journals out there somewhere, only one has returned to this date.

To check out more journals: 1000 Journals

Artist's Statement: My recent work is a disquisition on our shared narratives which seeks to unravel the threads of a visual conversation by mediating clichés through a retro-reflective lens.

Artist's Statement (better explained): My name is Ada Jaworska, I am an aspiring photographer and printmaker. I currently go to York University for Fine Arts. My work revolves around the concept of secrets. 

I am constantly being reminded that beyond the rough exterior people put up, there is an interior that is hidden with many secrets and stories. In my work I try to shine the light on a person's secret without fully exposing it. To conceptualize this ongoing theme the materials used will be primarily using photography. Recently I've taken a hobby to creating typographic images.  

Ongoing Project

Because this class is about using technology, my on going project is attempting to create images out of words. I have yet a lot to learn because I'm not at all familiar with using rograms such as Photoshop, but I'm enjoying bringing these ideas to life.