To Crumple.....
To Fire....
The two action words that I was assigned were “crumple” and “fire.”
When I first heard what my words were, I knew that they each presented a great
amount of opportunities and some limitations. The limitations of “crumple”
included that the object that could be manipulated for this verb had to be one
that could be balled up to resemble this verb. The object to be manipulated had
to be something flexible and not too stiff or non-malleable. This word provided
a great deal of opportunities. I was able to personalize the object that I used
for the image I created- i.e. choosing the color of the paper and it could be easily
documented in photographs. The second word I decided to use was “fire.” I was
very excited to be assigned this word as it presented a great deal of opportunities
and of course some limitations. The major limitation that this word presented
was that we could not be arrested in making this project so that limited the
amount of things that I could apply fire too haha. This word presented a great
deal of opportunities as virtually any
object can be set fire to and when something is set on fire, I think it takes
on a unique appearance as it is burning. Setting something on fire completely
changes the way an object originally looks which I find to be very intriguing. The
object I picked for crumple was a purple piece of construction paper which
seems simple but I really liked the way the images of it turned out. I was
originally going to crumple up foil, yet I liked the appearance and detail the
camera picked up of the crumpled paper. For the fire verb, I decided to use an
actual fire pit with logs to demonstrate the meaning of this verb. With this, I was easily able to contain the
roaring flames of the fire, yet also able to pick up the intricate details of
what fire looks like. For the crumple verb, I decided to physically crumple of
a piece of paper and record it in a series of steps. I chose to begin with a
piece of paper in its original form and take a series of images after of the
paper being slowly crumpled into a tiny ball. The final image shows the piece
of construction paper crumpled. I think the contrast between the final image
and the first image truly demonstrates the meaning of crumple. For the action
word, “fire” I really enjoyed photographing this verb. I happened to be camping
this particular weekend and I decided the ideal away to document this word was
to photograph it in a natural environment. I photographed various angles and
stages of the campfire and the progression of how it burned the wood. I chose what
I thought were the best images that represented the word, “fire” which to me is
an intriguing word that could be interpreted to mean danger, power, and/or even
a sort of beauty. For this project, I wanted to capture the beauty of fire with
its vibrant colors and powerful ability to turn an object into ashes. In this
case, fire eventually turned large logs of wood into tiny ashes.
Overall, I enjoyed making this project and being able to
turn and action word into an image/series of images.
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