Bohn+S-+Metaphor

http://www.uelsmann.net/ http://www.pinterest.com/moniquejullien/ren%C3%A9-magritte/

The first photographer that really stuck out to me was Jerry Uelsmann. After studying his stunning photos, I realized he uses a lot of nature/landscapes and then uses life. His photos are really strong to me and stick out. When reading about Jerry, I found out he has had over 100 individual galleries and his photos are permanently in MANY art museums. The second artist I studied was Monique Jullien. For some odd reason, when I tried to search this artist, nothing came up besides her work. Looking at her different images though you can tell she likes to incorporate the use of humans and nature.


 * CONCEPT: What is your idea for mythology and/or metaphor, how will you interpret the idea of a visual metaphor and a myth? **

Finding a good myth was extremely difficult. There are so many choices and I want to make sure I choose wisely, but after time dragged I found only a couple of ideas. The main idea that stuck out to me was the story of Pandora. She was a young and stunning woman who was given a jar. Inside of the jar contained many terrible things, but Pandora was told specifically never to open the jar. One day she fell into temptation and opened the jar. Inside of the jar was all evil. The only good thing left was hope. This relates to the world today because yes there are evil people, but we still have hope. To show a good metaphor of this myth within a piece, I'm going to either have a jar with all dark substances inside and on the bottom a tiny bit of life then have someone opening the top. My other idea is to have a super evil photo (everything dark) and have one main object that is bright so it symbolizes that through all evil there still is hope.


 * SUBJECT: What sorts of images will you need to shoot to create your idea? What will it involve? places, people, costumes, sets, nature, lighting? **

I will simply need a human and nature. If I proceed with my first idea I will need a photo of a hand along with a jar. Some how I would find something to make the jar dark on the inside. If I choose my second idea I'm thinking about taking a simple landscape photo and take maybe a flower or something that is happy to be the main concept of the photo. Both of these concept incorporate dark and light lighting.


 * REASONING: Why do you wish to do this idea? What will you learn from it? How is it interesting to you? **

Knowing that this myth has a deep concept, it's important to really get a good understanding of the myth and show it well in an image. Out of all the myths to choose from I knew I wanted to use a myth with a good meaning because making a project is a lot easier if it has a meaning that you're interested in. I'm interested in this myth because it reminds me a lot of Adam and Eve and being a big christian this myth really stuck out to me. It also intrigued me because it has such a strong message that through all evil within anything, there is always hope. Hopefully when I create this photo many people learn that not everything in this world is evil.


 * FACTS: What is the myth/metaphor that you are basing your idea on? Explain it's history and any other pertinent facts regarding the myth/metaphor that will help us understand your idea. **

The myth that I'm basing my idea off of is the myth about Pandora. She is a stunning women who was actually the first women created. Zeus gave Pandora a jar as a gift, but she was not allowed to ever open it. After a while Pandora opened the jar due to so much curiosity. Inside the jar was sickness, evil, sorrows, and lastly hope. This story involved the creation of man in the beginning. It is a lot like Adam and Eve in the bible. The main idea of this story though is that through all sorrow, sickness, and evil, you can't forget hope. This compares to the world today because there is a lot of evil, sorrow, and sicknesses, but we also have so much hope.

http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Creation_of_Man_by_Prometheus/creation_of_man_by_prometheus.html This is the citation of where I got the information about my myth.