VanAltenaC-Metaphor



1. Southern Gothic 2001- Maggie Taylor [] Maggie Taylor did a lot of creepy and more dark pieces of artwork, and this piece is no exception. In my opinion she has a clear metaphor that she's trying to portray here. I think that she's trying to demonstrate self destruction in this piece.

2. Oh, Happy Day! Maggie Taylor [] This piece is also by Maggie Taylor, but this one isn't quite as eerie as the last one. To me it is trying to get a message of renewal across, but it still gives me this old dark feeling when I look at it. It makes me feel like it something bad had to happen for this renewal.

3. The Lovers 2 -Rene Magritte [] The last piece is by Rene Magritte. His theme in his artwork is masked or blocked faces, and it is clearly demonstrated in this photograph. He does a lot of pieces like this one, and there's others where he has an object in front of a person, which is masking their identity. I believe that this is done to portray shyness, or unknown identities.

The myth or legend that I am going to portray in my photograph will be the story of Blood Mary. It goes like this, you must first stand in a bathroom with a mirror in front of you and turn off all the light. Then you say “Bloody Mary” three times and supposedly the ghost of Bloody Mary will appear behind you. Some even say that she will steal the soul or souls of the people looking in the mirror. The legends are all different, but the ritual part of it is one thing that is always consistent. When portraying this legend I will create a scene in a dark bathroom lit mainly through candlelight. For my visual metaphor, I will make the bloody Mary behind my subject faceless, and this will demonstrate the idea of no identity and how nobody really knows the real story behind the Mary that this legend was based off of. This idea was inspired by Rene Magritte, and his use of masking his subjects identities. I chose to base my idea off of Bloody Mary, because I remember hearing the story of bloody mary as a child, and immediately thought of it when I learned I had to base a photograph off of a legend. Additionally, the idea for this came from the photographs I looked at on the wiki, because the darkness and different effects on them gave me inspiration to do something creepy.