This time I made an additional set that contained my identity. Thus, I focused on written texts and books this time.

Identity Project Set 3 All Photos.      <- This is a link for all photos

 

Below is my red selection of four photographs, which are first, second, seventh, and tenth on the above link if you want to see in a better quality.

 

 

 

Artist Analysis:

On this set, I did not change my identity but change my subject when I took photos. That way, although I did not have to, I felt the need to find another artist to analyze. The photographer I found was Tom Teodosijev. His unique feature and way to take is photos was that he organized the objects in one space and and had portraits without people. That is the significant similarity that can be found in Teodosijev’s photos and mine. By taking photos that does not need people, he can emphasize his identity more clearly and can additionally attract the audience with objects that are sorted out of each other. Another aspect that I can notice from Tom Teodosijev is that he does not only present his photographs in one or three images(triptych). He generally presents a set of images (according to the vision and inspiration ppt there were eight images) and creates abstract beauty. I got inspired by Tom Teodosijev that I decided to work on this set without a person to express my identity and take photos of objects. Although it can not be considered as a perfect way to demonstrate my identity, I used photos of different written text, and I would plan to present the image with 4~5 images. When I observed Teodosijev’s photos of each image carefully, I also found out that objects that were in one rectangular storage contained objects that related with each other with the same topic. For example, one storage photo contains objects such as markers, pens, scissors, colored pencils, and even tape, which all can be related with the topic art. By sorting out the storage with equipments that related with each other, it did not create an unacceptable impression from the audience since they thought “Yeah, those stuffs should be there,” and continued viewing other storages. I also wanted to create the same effect, if possible, that Teodosijev created since it was very interesting to notice how he tended to show his own identity by organizing random objects into a box. I felt that I could do that action properly in terms with books, such as comparing two-language written bible at the same time or taking photos of a dictionary which is able to translate up to four different languages to demonstrate my unique identity: internationality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation:

As stated above, my identity was originally international aspect of myself. Unlike Set 1 and Set 2, which I took photos of coins, this time I decided to take photos of written text. Out of ten images, I chose my best four photographs as my red selection since it applied strongly to me. The first image I took was a red placard to celebrate year 2023, the year of rabbit. When I observed the text written on the red card, I noticed that there was some international text that had a sense of humor. In the text, it stated that “NICE 兔 MEET U” which seemed to have an international aspect. The character 兔 means in Chinese, rabbit, and is spoken as tu in Chinese. That way, the text is actually “NICE TO MEET U,” but also explicitly state that it is the year of rabbit. I thought that it was a collaboration of both English and Chinese text, so it made it through the red selection. The second photo in my selection was my books. There were lots of books, but the text type was various. For example, there were some Korean dictionaries and some English novels when I looked at the tile of the books. Multifarious types of books that war written in diverse languages are a perfect way to show my international identity that I have been to many countries and fluent in handful languages. In the third photo, I took photos of two bibles. I am a sacred Christian, but some people could think that there are no relevant information that shows my identity. However, one is written in English, and one is written in Korean. I feel equally the same when I have to read some text in church. Similar with the second image, the third image also reminds me of my international identity that it is diverse. Lastly the fourth image I took have one more language added: Japanese. As a son of a diplomat, I was “nomadic” and moved countries over countries every year or two. That way, I naturally learned each countries’ cultural differences(also mastered a lot of languages) and adapted quickly.  I generally think that the fourth photograph is the image that portraits my identity the most. The subject in this photo is a multi-language dictionary. When I am, for example, reading a book, and does not know what the word meant, I search it up on that dictionary. This dictionary helped me a lot when I encountered hard words and boosted me up to have a strong vocabulary when I speak Korean, English, Chinese, or Japanese. Overall, the four images and the remaining photographs I took showed exactly what identity I have and expressed it properly.