The Nature of Love

Edy Wong, The Nature of Love, 1/22/10, photograph, 3-5"x7" photos, FCS art classroom

With this assigment I wanted to experiment with a medium I have never used before: photography. I decided to try photography because I didn't have a lot of time to do this assignment and I figured acrylics (the medium I initially wanted to work with) would take too long and deprive me of too much sleep.

The theme in these three pictures is LOVE and the three pieces are connected by NATURE. For the first picture, I cut a small heart out of paper and stuck it in a flower bush; for the second I put a ring on top of a cute asparagus-y plant like thing; and for my final picture I hung pictures of wedding photos cut out from a magazine onto a branch of a tree/vine plant. The challenges I faced was trying to get pictures of the objects from nice angles and to make sure that the objects in the pictures came out focused and emphasized. I would have taken more pictures of different things but it was raining for the entire week so I couldn't do that.

The three pieces show a progression: in a couple's relationship, it starts out with an exchange of "I love you"s, next is the engagement ring, and finally they get married.