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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Kaitlyn Jo Smith: Four Breaths

Here are the photographs:

Here's a "sketch" of the installation:

Kaitlyn Jo Smith: process of Four Breaths

This piece was more process based. I sat in front of a bellflower (a perennial symbolic of loss) and opened my pinholes stutter. I kept it open as I took four deep breaths: a four breath exposure.

Kaitlyn Jo Smith: inspiration for Four Breaths

My questions for this project were as follows:
How do you photograph somebody who isnt there?
How do you photograph the spaces they should be?

I went back to pinhole photography as in my first project for this class, inspired once more by Ann Hamilton.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Kaitlyn Jo Smith: You Longed Greatly For Your Fathers House.

I made a pinhole camera in the shape of a very influential outbuilding from my childhood home. I then took it back there, set it on a rickety old stool and shot the shed, creating kinetic images of my past.

The further I’m pulled away from home (childhood), the tighter I cling on to the little bit that’s left. Yet I am finding, as time progresses, memories fade and stories change. We are constantly trying to go back to a place that no longer exists. Home has changed, we have changed and our relationship has become less personal and more nostalgic.

And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?
– Gen 31:30 (ESV)

Kaitlyn Jo Smith: process of You Longed Greatly For Your Fathers House.

A glimpse inside of my sketchbook; here you can see a bit of my thought process before, during and after the creation of "You Longed Greatly For Your Fathers House".