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“You call that art?”
Most people think art is the object… a painting, a sculpture, a piece of jewelry. But what defines art is the act of considering the object. A well-placed stone, a light bulb on a string, or a forty-foot tall paperclip can all be art if they cause you to take a new look at the world.
What’s important is that you react. You can love something or hate it. (They never tell you it’s ok to hate art.) You can guess the artist’s meaning or make up your own story. Just try to look at it with fresh eyes.
Art can be created or found. Art can be easy or hard. Art can be large or small. Art is anything you take the time to consider.
With that in mind, consider this…
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I think this is a cool project. Can you give us (your audience) some insight into the process. Do laura & travis pick a theme and both take a photo to meet it, or do you both take a lot of pictures and then curate them into complementary/contrasting pairs? Do you use the same camera? my questions let me show u them.
Good questions.
For themes, there’s some of both – one of the goals for the project was to get us out of the house and into the rest of the world. So, a lot of the posts are from weekend outings to the park or the wildlife sanctuary or wherever. The rest are photos that we’ve taken on our own, then looked to see what works together. The fading light pair was from a week that we were having really gorgeous twilight hours and both of us noticed interesting lights/shadows separately, but around the same time on the same day. Some of them are from weeks when I (this is Laura, btw) was out of town, so we both took pictures during the week and then looked at what we got when we were back together.
We’ve talked about choosing themes ahead of time in the future (or asking our audience to choose things for us as a challenge), but for now, this is working for us.
For cameras, we have two digital cameras that we both use (a Canon Powershot A590 point-and-shoot and a Canon XSi DSLR) and I’ve been playing around with Travis’s old film camera (a Yashica) a little bit. The point and shoot is nice for carrying around all the time, the SLR is nice for giving more control.