1 post tagged “urban landscape”
I just got back from photographing in Memorial Grove Park (yes, I'm still working on the Parks project; I have a few projects in mind that I haven't begun yet). I had passed by there a couple months ago, and it looked like it had some good potential. So, I decided to go there today, and was just a little disappointed.
It has some interesting structures and monuments, but right now, I'm not really sure they're in harmony with what the project has been all about.
I started to wander into the park, and wasn't seeing any photographs. I kept thinking "well, the light's just bad." But it wasn't really that...I think I just didn't really have my eyes open and my photographic thinking cap on just right. I finally made a few that I'm fairly pleased with. I'll know for sure once I process the negatives. But then, the last photograph I made was of the pond, and it is the epitome of what I have been saying the project is about all along. I've said, vocally, and in my artist statement, that parks are a place where people can come to enjoy a bit of nature and not have to drive a long way to get to nature. Parks are bringing nature to the city. This photograph (and I think once I get it processed, scanned, and posted, you will agree) shows just that. People relaxing, walking their dogs, enjoying nature, etc...in the park, in downtown Salt Lake City. It shows the perfect context of nature in the city, with the sky scrapers in the background. This was pretty hard to do in most of the photographs I made while I was completing my B.F.A. project, as South East Idaho is lacking in the sky scraper area, and that thought didn't occur to me when I made the few photographs I included from Seattle. So I think now that the thought finally has hit (and it's only taken three years), that idea will become visually clear, not just something the viewer has to read in a statement.
