Blog Art 1 - My Existence

BLOG ART 1 - My Existence

This is my first piece of blog art this is a piece that i am making for my first project for my photography course at university. The project is about my existence.



This piece of blog art is only a reconstruction of the original piece. The idea of the piece was to show my existence in the form of photographs showing my existence. I had to think long and hard about wat made me who i am. I also had to think how i was going to display my photographs. The final inspiration for how to display the photographs came from one of my jobs i had to do over the summer where i had to pack books into a box and create a database to keep track of them.

I was think about how people keep there memories as they get older. I tend to find that people as they get older they collect things like photographs, letters, and thing which are personal to them or are sentimental in a box.so i decided on this idea of the box and about putting my life and existence in a box.

I built the box out of very thin cardboard with the dimensions of 5Cm's X 5 Cm's. I made the box that small because i only have had a short life but as i get older n wiser the box would get bigger and filled with more things. Then I painted the box with several coats of black acrylic paint then i painted the internal walls of the box with white acrylic paint then i left the box a few days to dry thoroughly before i decorated the out side of the box. I decorated the outside of the box with pictures of me as if i was trapped inside the box and on the lid of the box i made it put to look like a wooden storage crate displaying wat was in side the box with a stencil looking font which u might find on a crate.

Then inside the box i put together a collection of pictures of thing people and experiences that have made my existence.

You can see these pictures by visiting the following link:

The Pictures Inside The Box