You have everything you need if you just believe.

When we were first told about the project, I freaked out a little bit. We had to create not one, but three unique images and I was running out of ideas as is. I couldn't really think of anything that I knew well enough to make three images out of. So I decided to make my big idea home. I've had a lot of issues with my concept of home over the past three years, so it seemed fitting that those three years could correspond to three separate images.

I set out with a vague idea of how I wanted my images to turn out, but no concrete plan. Originally, I had a picture of my house, taken from realtor.com with transparent images of things that remind me of the places I've lived (Edgewater Park and Moorestown, NJ and Boston, MA) on top of it. Then, after a bit of discussion, I decided that having the transparent images form my house would be a much more interesting concept. I erased the form of my house from the picture and layered the individual images within the void. I began with things that reminded me of Edgewater Park, then added to that things that remind me of Moorestown, then finally added images that remind me of living in Boston. After sizing, and rearranging a few things, it actually looked like it was forming the house. This was the hardest part, along with making the images spaced out over the void as to not lump too many location's pictures in one region of the void.
Overall, I like my piece. I really wanted it to be something that the viewer could understand without my explanation, which I think is possible, if not certain. I really wanted it to tell a story (even if that story is implied) rather than be three separate, loosely bound works, like in some of the videos of artists we saw in class (I am 100% looking at you crazy chocolate/soap head lady).  It's personal, which made inspiration and execution easy, if not mildly depressing. In all honesty, it was almost therapeutic for me to do this.The only complaint I have is the amount of white space left in the house because of the configuration of some of the logos and whatnot, but overlapping the images looked very VERY chaotic.  I hope the viewer can appreciate the story these images tell, or at least the story that they create for themselves using these images.