Beaudoin_MythMetaphore

These pictures, I believe, will help me in my own personal myth and visual metaphor project. I was inspired by the soothing, and natural sense of all of his work. Even though they are abstract, he makes transforms them to make the view see his piece(s) to make them seem like it is really like that. I also was intrigued by the black and white/sepia coloring. I feel like this makes the photo more peaceful and natural; if they were in color, i feel that the photos would be more UN-natural and harsh to the eye. I would like to chose a softer, less scary/creepy topic to focus on and use Jerry's idea of black and white/sepia transformations.Site: http://www.uelsmann.net/works.php

Concept: My myth idea that I have looked into and had shot photos for was the myth of Jack Frost. To modernize this aged myth, I was thinking of the idea of a whole new view. Jack Frost has been a male for generations, my thought on this was why not a female? So I’m taking in this idea of Mother Nature, yet a snow goddess. This myth seems to be an evil darker side of the winter season – someone that not many people care for. So my thought was to take all of those ideas and create women, winter goddess. But there is a twist of evil showing through her work. With doing this, I can achieve all the aspects of the original myth, yet make it completely my own.

Subject: Due to the conditions of the outdoors right now, it is a convenience to me that my myth has to do with the winter season. I will have to take pictures of nature with both snow and green. I would like to include green because it can show that my “Jack Frost” is in the process of covering the earth with her work, snow. If I wanted to “jazz” up the backdrop a little, I could take pictures of winter themed objects and change the opacity to very light and have it give off a texture, and show the cold yet beauty of the piece. With all of my ideas, my range of photos will need to include, nature, a female subject and possibly a costume to really go in depth of myth.

Reasoning: I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do when I first shot photos. It took me a while to finally decide on this subject but I chose this because it is very convenient for me as an artist to gather my materials (photos) and the idea of making it my own, and giving it my own twist made me think about the femininity of nature. This myth is interesting to me because I Jack Frost was always the bad guy in the winter seasonal movies, and I never – as a kid – understood why, so for me to be able to make him/her a form a beauty and nature is very intriguing.

Facts: This is a long and thoughtful story, and you can read the whole thing if you click on the link below. But Jack frost had passed away and came back as a ghost winterizing places when the time came. Another part of the story is that he had created the Snow-Drop flower --- a white “tulip” looking flower that is white and droops to the side, much like a bell. - http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/userstory6484-jack-frost.html