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VIS 60N Photographs | Fall 2005 | Film color photography
As detailed in my UCSD Chronology, my art career at UC San Diego was very conceptually-influenced, more so than by aesthetics. You can read more into it at the Chronology, but in essence the reason for that is that the Visual Arts major is more conceptually focused than aesthetically. I had to take way more theory classes than practice classes, and even in the few practice classes I took, either by habit or obligation, I still thought about my work conceptually.
Photography was a class just like that. Arguably the best class I took while at UC San Diego, it taught traditional color film technique (a dying trade, actually). I struggled with the technical aspect, so instead I thought about my projects in a conceptual way. This series of images, like most of my other projects in this class, was an exploration of the juxtaposition of an object outside its conventional environment.
