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Nostalgia: A Junior Experimental Project by Sanjana Pandit (2013)

For my experimental design, I explored the feeling of nostalgia. Throughout my artwork, there is a pattern of images in a girl’s mind. This represents how she is remembering these moments and wanting to re-live them. I purposely lowered the opacity of these photos to make it look like these memories were fading away, but she wants to hold onto them forever. My intention of making the girl figure in black and white was to convey how her memories are more important that her present life, implying how one should never forget their past.

I first began this project by taking a photo of a girl and uploading the picture into Adobe Photoshop CS6 to cut her figure out with the pen tool. Then, I found several photos that I thought were a valid representation of universal memories. It was very difficult to make these images in the girl’s mind to appear pleasing because of the color scheme and content in each photo. I had to cut out each image to fit the shape of her mind also using the pen tool. I played around with different images to discover which ones worked better with one another. For the background, I decided to make it white because I felt like simpler was better for my theme and I wanted the main focus to be the memories the girl was remembering. Overall, this experimental design gave us a lot of freedom to explore different aspects of media.
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