Thesis Meeting

After my thesis meeting today i am feeling slightly frustrated and a little overwhelmed. I feel like i a teetering on the edge of what i want my concept to be but I'm still not quite there. I know i need to push it a little further but i am just not sure what direction to go in. I feel like the idea and the images i am coming up with are still stuck in the realm of intermediate photography and i am just struggling to bring it into the advanced state i know that i need to get to. There are a couple different ideas that i am currently toying with as far as the direction i would like my images to go in for my next critique that i think might get me a little closer to where i want to be. One is the concept of masculinity vs. femininity. On more than one occasion these types of categorizing words were brought up pertaining to the feeling or idea that my images portray. For example today during my thesis meeting i had two rows of images: My initial images from my first shooting session on top and the images i most recently shot at the Krohn Conservatory on the bottom. When placed in this fashion they depicted a somewhat apparent juxtapositions of feminine and masculine non representational imagery. One idea that i got from this was the idea of finding and representing abstractly both the masculine features and feminine features in an object that isn't normally associated with either gender. In some ways Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs" is a good illustration of the type of thought process behind this idea.



source: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/CCT510/Statement-Representation-Reference-Sign.html


He is taking a well known, very recognizable item and exploring and depicting it in three different ways. I would also like to start with a very well known recognizable way and the explore it's lines, shapes, textures, and volumes and then be able to convey those things in two different ways that cause the viewer to see a hard masculine side, and a soft feminine side in a completely non representational form. I think that going in this direction may help make my idea a little more cohesive while still allowing me to strive to accomplish my original goal which was to make the function of the objects in my images to become unrecognizable