narrative

My photo diptych was was not related to my animation, instead telling a different story of a girl with a big imagination. We had to choose an internal personality trait or conflict, and then demonstrate how that conflict shows itself in an external way; for example a person who has always gotten what they want (shown in the first picture) now has to sacrifice something they want for someone else, which would be shown in the second. To help us come up with our own conflicts, we received a huge list of both and were asked to mix and match giving us combinations like, perfectionism and companionship or phobic and getting caught. Mine became sheltered and breaking rules.

Artist Statement:

In my photo narrative, my pictures represent a character’s internal conflict, and then how that internal conflict becomes a physical problem. My first picture shows a girl in her own world behind a door, a door that she’s been behind her whole life. In the second picture, she has to make a choice: to step out of her unknown world and dare become an individual, or to remain inside her safety zone. Her internal conflict is that she’s always remained in a safe zone; inside her comfort zone she’s made her home and she’s a very sheltered and timid person. The second picture is the pregnant pause before she decides to step outside the door and make her choice.

In the first image, I desaturated and dulled the colors inside the screen door, in parallel with her dull and desaturated life, deprived of color and a unique point of view. Outside she imagines the world to be a glorious place, and so the colors are intensified. She’s wearing a heel to illustrate the uncomfortableness of stepping out, and the tendency to stay with what you know (the comfortable but dingy sneakers).The outside of the second image is cut off, because she has no idea what will happen or what the outside world contains and so she can’t see it or guess at what’s there. Her long shadow is the life she plans to leave behind, if she chooses to.