vanhulle-metaphor



Artists Jerry Uelsmann and Sandy Skoglund inspired me. In the first picture it features Jerry Uelsmann looking at him self through a small mirror. I love this picture because people always see themselves differently in a mirror compared to how other people really see them. Many people are not happy with what they see in the mirror also. I love how half of the picture is in a natural scene and the other half appears to be during a dark day. I would maybe like to do my project on something with self imagery. The second photograph by Sandy Skoglund is a great depiction on what happens when you are old. The woman is eating by herself and I picture her talking to herself as well. She appears to be pacing the floor waiting for something interesting to happen in the outside world that she is closed off from. I love how she used the same person in the same picture multiple times to create a puzzling effect. The last photograph was done by Jerry Uelsmann of hands. I really enjoy the strong sense of being in a dream. When I first saw this picture I adored how it was black in the back round and a pinkish white tone in the center of the hands. It really draws the viewer in and makes them think about what is going on. The dreams people hold are only really known to them in which they hold in their hands. I hope to incorporate black as my back round to draw viewers into the picture like Jerry Uelsmann did.

One metaphor I was interested in was from the song The Show by Lenka. The starting lyrics are "I'm just a little bit caught in the middle, life is a maze and love is a riddle". I love this song and I also feel like that lyric is very me. I feel a little lost in highschool with everything and everyone changing. Life right now is a bit of a maze for me. I would probably use just the lyric up until life is a maze.