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I am really inspired by Maplethorpe's flower photos. I like the simplicity and the beauty of the way he photographs them. I would love to photograph flowers in this style but I'd like to tell a story of beauty fading. I want it to be more narrative than his photos. His photos are very sexualized and representational. I like the representational aspect of it, but I want my flowers to be telling something more than shoving sex in someone's face. I like this idea a lot. My only concerns with it are the execution and being to closely inspired by his work that my own voice doesn't come through enough. I really like this idea and I really want my work to represent me even if I am complimenting another artist by implementing their style.

For my alternate persona project, I honestly am not sure what I am going to do. I wanted to be a hippie because I love nature and care about the environment and I think it would be interesting to do only things that were good for the environment for one day from what I wear to what I eat. I think this could be super hard and expensive though, but maybe not. I also could do something like where I would be complacent towards everything that someone asks me to do or say for a day. That might be an interesting experience. 

Comics Chapter 9. The End.

The last chapter of the comics book wrapped it all up. It stated that comics are sequential art and use all the elements that were discussed in the book to get their message across. It kind of paid tribute to comics as an art form comparable to film and other story telling methods. It was a good book. I liked the philosophy and history references in it. It really made me think about art in a more intellectual sense. I think it highlighted some personal reactions and processes that go on while viewing art that people don't even realize. I think so much of the way we view art and the conclusions that they make about it are on a subconscious level but by bringing the elements that form those views to light we as artists can manipulate them to our intentions while creating art. It is power that we have when we create art, we can form peoples views on our art and use our art to make them contemplate things in life that we want to be examined. It is kinda a sort of propaganda, but used in a good way. We can form people's minds to see things in a different light for a moment, or we can just show them something aesthetically appealing that shows off our skill. As artists the things discussed in this book can be very useful.

Sequence/Narrative Proposals

1. I would love to do something with black and white film photography. I love the style of the classic nature photographers like Ansel Adams, Robert Maplethorpe, and Carleton Watkins. I like that the process of black and white photography is a long involved one if you are developing by hand. I would love to do my work and go to a photo lab and process my work by hand. That process in itself is amazing and I love it, but of course you cannot document it. No light could be allowed to take photos in a dark room and it would be destructive.

2. I would like to illustrate a story, like a popular movie or something in my own way. Zombieland would be fun to do this with. I could change the graphics to fit my style more, Alice in wonderland would be cliche but as always, fun to put your own creative spin on a crazy landscape. I could also illustrate a story as dictated to me by one of my friends. I could have a lot of fun with that.

3. I could document a day in my own life or in the life of someone else. The idea of capturing someone's daily routine is fascinating to me. We all are curious about each other's experiences. That's why facebook is so popular, I think it would be interesting to document everything that someone does for one day in the most naturalistic way that I could because they already know they're on camera all the time. Often times all the things we want to show others are moments of fun, parties and when we're ready for it, but it'd be cool to document real life