So design 3 has taken off this Fall semester and I have the same professor. She's like, Michelle you need to take someone new next semester. And I'm like, yeah I know!! I just love her teaching methods.
I signed up for her in the beginning of this journey because I was told that she's tough, she'll make you cry. And believe it or not I cried this assignment, skipped a class as well. But I signed up for this.
So the project is surrounded by the idea of graffiti. We watched the WWII video on "Kilroy was here". So we needed a graffiti mark in our drawings. I'm getting ahead of myself.
We needed to take pictures of an artifact that impacted us, in a 12 shot series. Black and white, little-to no background.
I went through maybe 4 iterations of pictures before I finally got it down.
I thought, a water bottle is important to me! I run all the time. On the first day of pinning up, i found out it wasn't personal enough. Then I attempted to tell a story about my asthma.
I thought the sneaker idea would come across more personal. I sent her like 2 other iterations by phone and those weren't clear enough. When this set was pinned up, the background was still too messy and the story was hard to understand.
So then I decided to skip class, change my concept completely and wing it. Honestly the constant rejection killed my spirits. I needed a day off from this.
The new iteration I finished at home before redoing it for the final project.
Thanks for keeping up with me !
-Michelle C. Harter
