Working Title: The Other Side

Message: I want my audience to discover 798’s architecture and atmosphere from a viewpoint that is not their own. Rather than seeing everything through their eyes, I want them to see the beauty of reflection and unique angles.

Audience Response: I want my audience to feel a sense of contemplation and hesitation when viewing my finished product, taking a second to realize the pictures they are looking at rather than immediately understanding them. I wish that just like me, my audience will find different ways to view the world around them, finding reflections and normally impossible alterations from those reflections.

Inspiration: I have always liked to find reflective surfaces and see the interesting things I can accomplish with them, like sticking out half my body to make it look like I am floating, or mirroring hand gestures to make impossible patterns. I really enjoyed Emma F. Wright’s work, and her common use of reflections, which I wish to try to emulate through my photos at 798.

Closing Sentences: Through extra attention to reflective surfaces, I will attempt to capture 798’s industrial yet modern atmosphere through the mirrors of glass, puddles, or windows, showing how the world does not simply have to be viewed in a straightforward manner. I hope my audience can learn to not only use their eyes uniquely, but also their minds, and learn to find different viewpoints to problems, and angles toward life.