b/w inspiration - creepy theme

so the theme i'm going to go with is creepy, like darker themed cause thats what i think of more when i think black/white. i dont usually have a creepy theme to my work so i thought i would take this opertunity to try out and expand on what im capable of and do like dark scary creepy things. like photographing dolls, and gohstly like images.

1.Describe the piece.
well this piece doesnt involve photography and is mainly a design piece, looks like a old letter sign for a autobody shop. mainly focuses on text and design and uses it to convey the concept.

2.What do you think Ken Lum is trying to communicate?
People often don't express there sexuality so openly, because their afraid of people may treat them. and ken lum is like overexagerating his point to make more of a statement. and some people make a huge deal about comeing out of the closet and he could also be saying it doesnt have to be such a big deal. he is mainly focusing on teh issue of homosexuality and sexuality.

3.How does it explore race, culture, language, class, and/or identity?
Well hes gay and in most society's and culture its not the most acceptable thing and in some it can be considered a bad thing, and also he could be showing that hes found his identity.

4.Define conceptualism, how is this work a conceptual piece?
The meaning or message behind a piece of work or art. so like the deeper meaning, or reason for doign a piece or what your trying to convey through something, it could also be included as a theme. this piece is conceptual in it has a deeper meaning, and the concept focuses on homosexuality and personal identification.

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Why do you like this? Why did you choose this?

Well I chose 1,2, and 4 because i thought the perspective was really cool, like the way they installed the photos made I different type of impact. I also find them kind of funny like #1 is makes it look like the guy is looking up people pants, and such. And #3 I just thought was very sweet and I liked the back round it was on and the effect of the photo made it visually fun. #4 looks like the person is getting closed in by the ivy which can send a certain mood and message to the viewers of that piece.

Can we do this for lfas? How would it work for lfas?

Well as for the different perspective’s all the photos have, I don’t really think we could do that at lfas cause were just putting them up on the school but maybe we could do a couple of different things like how #3 is, on a portable or something. Also I like how #2 is split up we could do that on different parts of the school that have separated roofs and such.

What sort of scale?

I think the bigger the better but not to big but big enough that it makes a large impact and big enough for people to be able to see from the road, and if we did some on the portables then I think they should be huge like #3 but it depends if we are going to have them more unified or not cause if there unified then they should all be the same size and probably as tall as an average person.

Background?

I think that we shouldn’t cut them out because it would look a tad cleaner if we kept it more unified as for the format of the picture.

 Expressions?

I think the expression on their face should represent how they feel about art or how art makes them feel when there doing it.

 Poses? Will the portraits be full length? Or just head and shoulders?

I think the pictures should be head and shoulder shots but then it would be hard to represent art in so little space, for example for dance it would be better if it was full length to catch them in a dancers pose.  So it depends what’s going to be in our photos.