This is my final triptych, named ‘Humans.” There is a massive connection between humans and my triptych. Humans get older and older as time passes; we get wrinkles, bad eyesight, and other problems, and people believe these make us look uglier and uglier. However, I viewed it from another perspective; negative features aren’t just bad; they make us more unique. It is a natural thing that happens to everything: humans, plants, or objects. This connects to my photographs as the first two show two features of the worn-out parts, and as they blend, it creates an eye-catching moment(third photo). I aimed to capture moments that represented the beauty of the passage of time, and those worn-out textures with monotone colors were extremely attractive.

In 798, I could take photographs uniquely showing each object’s textures, and I achieved my goal. Focusing on the texture, I also emphasized another art element: lines. All three photos show their lines, but in various ways; the first one with the line shaping the chair, the second one showing the crevice of the bricks, and the last one showing those blended. My success criteria were 1. Did I meet my statement of extent? 2. Are the photographs abstract? 3. Are the photographs related to my inspirations? I was able to meet most of the success criteria. I got my inspiration from Aaron Siskind’s abstract photographs. His photos all contain a sense of their texture, but a photo of walls with peeling paint and paper, and how he creates significant photographs that include a mysterious atmosphere, just with monotone colors, grabbed my mind.

Also, I successfully explored the theme of abstraction. As I define abstraction as a type of technique with a raw form of expression that people aren’t used to, but shows representation, providing us the ability to view the world in various perspectives(from my second blog post for this unit), I feel like I’m happy with the results I got. All of my photographs maintain a point of view that focuses on the boring parts; there is no main point, which is a major point of abstraction. Creating an eye-catching photo with a boring component might sound weird, but this unit made me understand the actual part of an abstract photograph. For the display, first, I focused on the blend of the photographs, and the three photographs above were chosen. I also added a story of how the worn-out chair, an object, added to an old wall, a background, can create such an interesting photograph.

Looking at my triptych, I hope the viewers acknowledge the sense of beauty that the passage of time brings us, and that the worn-out parts are not just dirty and ugly; they can be attractive in our lives. Viewing our world with an open perspective was the message I aimed to represent with my photos. Overall, I was able to show that theme. However, the areas that I will need to work on in future projects might be capturing more abstract moments with other themes because I want to improve on showing abstraction with my own idea with various concepts and themes.