The Idea for this project was to obtain items from somewhere and create 3 images which somehow link with each other. Knowing that i had plenty of unique and interesting items at home i took the opportunity to take a train back home to loughborough and take still life photos there. Since there were three photos i wanted each one to represent a certain part of the day, one for Dawn, one for Noon and finally one for Night. By following this theme i was able to produce images that didn’t 100% fit together but still follow the brief as each image is somehow linked.

 

Image 1 was the still life picture for Dawn. using an upturned fish bowl full of bottlecaps i carefully inserted a lightbulb through the bottom so it just emerges from the inside. The lightbulb itself is meant to represent the rising sun whilst the bottlecaps loosely represent trash from a city. Over the fish bowl i added an old duvet cover for the light from the bulb to bounce off of and add some warmth to this otherwise cold image. As it’s dawn the duvet cover is only half covering the fish bowl as if everyone is just getting up, like the sun. The Backdrop is mostly white with a black stain on the far left as if the dark is slowly fading away as the sun rises. Looking closely there are specks of dust on the inside of the fish bowl which look almost like stars, although the sun makes them disappear during Dawn they’re never completely gone.

 

Image 2 was the still life picture for Noon. Taken in portraiture orientation it’s meant to represent the sun being at it’s highest point in the day. Noon is a busy time of the day, it’s when most individuals are out working, maintaining our towns and cities and producing inspirational pieces of work for the world to see. And for that reason there is a strong theme of Culture and Industry in this image with giant cast iron gears sitting in harmony with an elegant stone figurehead. In the middle is a crocheted flower, a product of both industrial and artistic efforts with the farming industry providing the wool and an artist to use the skill and turn it into something beautiful. Placed in the foreground are two branches off a tree to show that whilst humanity has come far everything we have created originated with mother nature.

 

Image 3 was the still life picture for Night. My idea was to create a fantasy setting almost like a dream. To create this I obtained multiple vintage bottles dotted around our garage, thick with dusk and grime they created an old and mysterious feel to them. I then placed fairy lights inside of them as if actual fairies were trapped inside of them. Bright like the stars they appear during the night, the sun sits watchfully as they take over the image as the stars would in the night sky. In the bottom corner there is a tiny doll like fairy sitting on a rock as if it were drawn there by magic. Among all the vintage bottles is a lantern (above the fairy) and a spirit burner (right left corner) which would be used to see in the dark in the nighttime. Following the fairy tale theme a tiny mirror like picture frame sits in the bottom left corner as if it had just come out of snow white.