casting shadows

OK so this week we have feedback from our tutors and I'm expecting a serious boot up the arse and a bit of a bollocking but i wouldn't be the only one I'd say so non whinging and more work is the call of the day. I was messing around with a few more cutouts of limerick on card to keep producing more in the series of boxes (which I've been told to do a hundred times and i keep going off on tangents) and i just started playing around with throwing light on front of the image rather than from behind or within the box itself. What i found by doing that is a real depth and that spooky image of a shadow which always used give me a chill as a kid, like a mental picture of a forrest in a ghost story or something, and by casting two separate light sources in different directions and so forth instead of adding an extra dimension to the photo it added an extra dimension to the shadow itself which i thought was pretty cool and i think it is something that can only add more atmosphere to my project. So this week the plan is to mess around with lighting, coloured light and possibly sound to see if i can really emphasise the atmosphere and that uneasiness I'm trying to get across.

A change in direction...well slightly

Have you ever felt someones stare? Ever been somewhere so dark you could almost feel it? Ever catch yourself speeding up your walk through an unfamiliar place or locking your car doors as soon as you get in? I think everyone has at some stage, but is it because you feel unsafe or is it the mood of where you are that you just don't understand why this uneasyness comes over you? I think the darkness is associated with eery feelings but i think light can also provide mood so that is what i want to explore with my models. Along with the models that pose a question to the viewer i also want to try and create an atmosphere with them so that it does pose that question inside of feeling the unknown!!