10- Week Super SCAD Series Marathon

One thing I love/hate about SCAD is the 10 week terms.  On one hand, I enjoy the fact that my schedule is changing often and that I am quickly learning new things.  However, when trying to develop a new series, I LOATHE the 10 week terms.  The pressure of knowing that you not only have to propose a concept, you also have to produce it is overwhelming.  I CAN'T TAKE THE PRESSURE!    I would love to be able to take my time with an idea.  Plant the seed and let it grow.  At the moment, I am not feeling inspired.


Last term, I challenged myself to come up with a narrative as my concept for my series.  In the series, a woman is on a journey to find her lost son who had been taken from her as an infant.  When she arrives at the place where she thought he had been all these years, she discovers that the facilities are abandoned.  While, the viewer is not going to get the specifics of the story, I feel that I succeeded in the overall theme.  Here are just a few shots from that series.

This term, I am continuing with this story.  However, I'm not moving forward.  My next photos will be like flashbacks to the last series.  I want to show the mother with her child.  In these images, I would like for the viewer to be able to recognize them as flashbacks or dreams.  I began shooting the new images this past week and was left a little stumped as to where I'm going.  Though I am happy with some of the images, I worry about what message they are conveying.  Sometimes I find myself so caught up in the detailed story of these images and I forget that the viewer is not necessarily going to connect the dots themselves.  But at the same time, I feel like that's okay too.  I don't want to spoon feed the viewer into gaining the exact story I have in my head.  If I wanted that to happen, I would just add words and make a book.  Here are a few of the shots from this week's shoot.