"Two for the road is an editing experiment based on the visual similarities that can be found when photos are presented side by side."
This is great! You can put forward photos if you have a flickr account or you can email them straight to the man in charge. Brilliant idea.
You all might have noticed in my work that I've been working increasinly with both strong and subtle similarities with my photo collections. In pointing out the obvious similarity I feel this also makes the differences so much more evident on further inspection. On first glance (or second, depending on whether you're into my sort of thing...) you might think 'Oh okay.. similar photo, so what'... I think repetition (or volume of different photographs) is the key here and has also been a strong theme in my work this semester. It's kind of like that phrase/fact (can we call it a 'fact'?) that no two snowflakes are the same, I guess I'm trying to collect all those different snowflakes, or desks, or people or armpits or whatever.
Repetition also forces the viewer to make connections in their own mind. I've found this to be a great tool because I'll be honest sometimes I really struggle with my visual language and making it open enough for others to understand what the heck I'm trying to tell them. Probably another key here was to tone down the kind of autobiographical work I've done all the way through art school, which is hindsight is so unpenetratable by others that it's no wonder I got myself so confused when attempting to explain what it is I do and what my work is about.
So, simplicity is working for me at the moment.. and on that note, check out that website!
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