Photography Thumbnail Sketches

 In Art, we are moving on to our next unit: photography. To start this, we looked at an artist from the L1 matrix and had a look at their work. Once we found a work that fits with our kaupapa or theme, we were to draw two thumbnail sketches. The artist model that I chose was Rinko Kawauchi. Kawauchi is a female Japanese photographer. The two thumbnail sketches that I chose were both untitled, but part of two different photo series': 'The Eyes, The Ears' and 'Utatane'. Here are the thumbnail sketches that I did-

Thumbnail Sketch one

Thumbnail Sketch two (I found drawing the photo's tone to be quite hard)

My kaupapa or theme is Equality. Within this theme, I want to explore and focus more on inequality and social conscience; things that stop/limit equality. 

I quite liked how she photographed the little plant trying to climb up the chains in the first thumbnail sketch. From my perspective, the chains represent something to do with being stopped or being weighed down by a burden. But the little plant is being persistent and trying its best to do well despite these circumstances. 

With the second thumbnail sketch, we can presume that the fish are all dead, but I found it interesting how there was one fish floating while the other three were at the bottom of the bucket. Ignoring the fact that fishes float once passed, I thought about the photo from a fresh perspective. Perhaps the fish did something wrong or was just different overall which caused that fish to be cast out from the group. An example of this is society is when a group of people gang up to tease or bully one person in particular. This is a simple example of societal inequality.