#1: Gel Medium
The Theme for my gel medium photo was Balance. On one side of the photo there is a tower of rocks which has many different sizes of stones forming the sculpture but is still able to balance with ease. The other side has a picture that i took of a buddha sculpture i found in the class, Balance is a bit deeper in this part of the photo but it still follows the theme. Buddhism, the religion that believe buddha to be god is very often associated with the art of yoga. Performing yoga poses requires a lot of balance to hold the position without toppling over so thats why I included a photo of this statue. How I made this photo was by first photoshopping the rocks into the photo with the statue and I also made the rocks more opaque so they would blend better into the background. Once the photo was finished I printed it out taped it down to a wooden board and started the process and painting on the layers of gel medium and drying. Once applying around 10 layers I washed off all of the paper off of the back and the gel medium photograph was complete.
#2: Photogram
The photogram is a process of exposing photo paper to light while placing various objects on them so that those certain areas would stay white. What i used for my photogram was: A lid of a glue stick, a lid of a film canister, popsicle sticks cut into sword like shapes, pieces of construction paper i cut out to look like bodies in a fighting stance, and paper letters i cut to form the word on the bottom of the photo. The meaning of my photogram is "Fighting over Nothing". Basically what this means is nowadays people fight over such minimal things such as who gets the last playstation on a black friday sale or who gets to control the remote. How I portrayed this meaning in my photogram was by having two stick figures fighting over the word "nothing". I think I showed the theme pretty well because it is very literal and simple, but also would take a few seconds to understand what it really means.
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