OK. Longmont, Colorado, 2013
Looking for a fun long-term project?
Here are two ideas:
1) Collect letters and/or numbers with your camera. Whenever you see an interesting letter or number–could be because of color, texture, type of script, whatever–isolate it and capture it with your camera. Once you have a nice, big collection of letters and numbers, you can size them similarly and then arrange them on a canvas in Photoshop to spell out a quote, an address, a name, a short poem, or whatever strikes your fancy. For example, crop each of your letters into 2″ x 2″ squares, then lay them out on an appropriately sized canvas layer to spell out “Eat more burgers.” Or, “Coexist!” Or, “Wag More, Bark Less.” Or, “The Jetson Family.” Then, print, mat, and frame. You get the idea. Moderately creative versions could make great gifts; super creative versions could make a statement and be considered “real” art!
2) Collect words with your camera (like the “OK” above). Then do something similar as I described with the letters/numbers idea. Or, to take it a step farther, you could enlarge, mat, and frame each word separately, then hang your works in order so that some profound message about existential angst is written out along the length of the gallery wall.
Just a couple of ideas to get you thinking about the unlimited number of ideas there are in the photographic universe. Have fun!
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