Photography project (from a-n)

 My working process as an artist is very chaotic. This process causes me to unpublish blogs etc., only to realise that I want to publish them again. When I was studying BA Fine Art, an artist who worked with us briefly, said artists have a strange relationship with their work – where they go through periods of loving it, hating it, only to love it again later. A few interpretations of this process from experienced artists I interacted with included mentioning that it was like a marriage or a parent-child relationship.

Even knowing that others go through chaos, it still feels like my own process is stranger than the rest. It’s because I’m experiencing it within my own body, and I’m seeing others’ processes as an external appearance. How does one cope with this? It’s been written about in psychoanalysis, but because it’s written in a style that intends to gatekeep, it’s hard to understand fully what these writers are trying to say.

I’ve added a new project – The AM PM Photography project, where I document the differences between day and night. The majority of life is structured around occupation and institutions during the day, but culture comes alive after 5 pm. For people who work in the creative industry, there’s a pattern of duality between the day job and pursuing their true passion after work. The photos are digitally altered to evoke the nostalgia of retro photography, both symbolising and stating that something is lost in current photography, maybe even beyond the medium itself.

It’s interesting how the photographs I take during the day seem to usually have fewer people than the ones I take at night.

Links:

AM – Jasmine Lee_

PM – Jasmine Lee_

 

I changed the page background colour with CSS. Each page reflects day and night modes on phones. The white background on the AM photography reflects the corporate nature of what the ideal current website would look like (suspiciously like a white cube space), and the black background on the PM photography rejects this ideal. Experts have even advised against the black background with white text because it’s jarring on a UX level.

The background where the work sits is like a concert, where the music artist is supported by technical special effects. The songs would still be good without the lighting effects, but it wouldn’t be as immersive to the viewer.

 

Why it’s called cultural capital

I’ve noticed something whilst writing this. I’m in a good mood and can produce decent work when I have enthusiasm (it’s like I’ve borrowed the enthusiasm from going to cultural events), and I get angry, cynical and bitter when I run out of enthusiasm; and my output suffers as a result. I’m not a fan of Freud, but I have to admit he was onto something when he stated that creativity runs similarly to the economy. Maybe I borrowed enthusiasm on the condition of dishing it out freely rather than profiting.