Triptych

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FINAL EVALUATION

My title of this triptych is “The cream of the crop”. I have developed my own individual approach to this title by taking three similar photos that had minor differences with each other. “The Cream of the Crop” is actually an idiom; meaning the best of all. What I tended to emphasize in this triptych was there were one(or more than one) specific features that were interesting. The artist that have inspired me most are Edward Weston and Andreas Gursky. Edward Weston focuses on ordinary main subjects to point out the abstract nature of them, while Andreas Gursky prefers taking a photo of large subjects that contains one simple abstract element (mostly line). That way, I tried to combine the unique vision of two photographers and took three photographs that mainly showed textures. In order to develop my ideas for this project I experimented with the thought that if I had to make a triptych I should make similar but different images. I was so confused in this thought because it seemed so repetitive to put three similar images that had the same topic with the same color. However, suddenly it became interesting to me to point out major or minor differences of the similar photographs. After experimenting, I have brought together the best parts of my previous projects to create my final series of images by determining my direct vision while preparing for this project and examining the three pictures. By examining them carefully, I found the small hole from the first picture, lines on the side on the second image, and consecutive pattern of holes on the third picture. Overall, these pictures created beautiful textures. To create final series of images I worked on various order location I ordered the images using affinity program and trying to crop some part of the image to depict differences of the images. I chose to work like this because that way I can avoid my triptych’s repetitiveness and provide more abstract beauty.  Overall, I think the strengths of the projects are that my photos in triptych are related, not off-topic. I am proud that the three does not look like three separate photos and are a triptych so they share similar and different aspects. The areas that I will need to work on in the future projects are finding different abstract element to focus on. I recently focuses too much on lines and textures that photos that contain other elements seem not good to put them in my “red selection”. In conclusion, I think that I made a decent job trying to take abstractly beautiful photos.