Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Amor Fati
I think I've finally narrowed it down to a single idea which though can be considered simple is in fact quite conceptually deep. I've been stuck on what to represent and why it should be represented with such monstrous philosophical ideas behind my corner, but in each I could never find myself accepting these image ideas. Finally I decided upon an idea and title for what my series will become, Amor Fati. This can be translated from latin to "love of fate", but it is not to be mistaken for something amorous.
To love one's own fate, as Nietzsche put it, is to accept one's own fate whether it is the good or the bad. To take in one's own life objectively is to accept the endless triviality that may plague some which is what I want to explore. In all honesty due to my lack of enthusiasm towards my final project I haven't really wanted to shoot, but rather think. I've spent hours and days stressing over this entire idea and I think I can finally bring it to fruition.
My idea is simply this love of one's own fate which can be misleading because rather it would be better to say the acceptance of one's own fate. There are those that feel their realities have become stagnated and rather than to deny their fate and try to achieve greater they simply accept their conditions and go throughout the daily motions of their mundane existences. My idea is the exploration of how people have constructed their existence only to find themselves stuck in a conformative life that they choose not to reject.
As the photographer we construct and image. Whether we know it or not we choose what is to be seen, who is to be shot, how it is shot, when it is shot, and more basically why we shoot it. Much like people construct their realities, I as the photographer am constructing these images in a way that I want the viewer to see. Perhaps simple people will not even get to this point, but I have no interest in spoon-feeding the simpletons who choose not to stretch their minds, especially when looking at a basic principle of constructing an image. Next is my idea of what is seen. How do I represent someone's mundane existence? Do I clutter the visual senses with information? No, I show them scenes of life that are rather ordinary. Things we may see everywhere, but shot in an extraordinary way.
To shoot these "mundane" scenes is to prove how I have constructed people's mundane lives. I want the viewer to look at my image first then analyze it deeply. Why is it a simple scene? Why is it not more suggestive? Why is the light shown that way? These are questions I hope the viewer will be able to answer, with a little help because I understand that some ideas may need help. Next within these extraordinary "mundane" scenes I want them to question why there is a sense of wrong in the image. This is where I'm stuck at. Only 2 of images I feel capture this ideal that I used. The one in the hallway which I have called 'Sisyphus' and the one of the apartment with the hallway as well.
Normally you would find it troubling the way the light is directed, but I've done it in a way that can be overlooked at first and needs further analyzation. Lastly there is Nietzsche's idea of moral nihilism. There is no good or bad in life simply existence. This I have rather simply done with color. Although it may be difficult to determine there is a shift of color palette between blue and orange. This dichotomy of color emphasizes how there is percieved good and bad, but in reality they are merely constructs of people.
Going back it may be a simple idea of love of one's own fate, but it is an idea of conformity. The idea that you live and die within your existence. Some may feel trapped in their existence that is considered trivial, but we choose to live it because we choose not to fight it. Perhaps they have stopped caring or perhaps they merely accepted their own fates and chose to love ever decision in some sense of the word.
-JP Amador
To love one's own fate, as Nietzsche put it, is to accept one's own fate whether it is the good or the bad. To take in one's own life objectively is to accept the endless triviality that may plague some which is what I want to explore. In all honesty due to my lack of enthusiasm towards my final project I haven't really wanted to shoot, but rather think. I've spent hours and days stressing over this entire idea and I think I can finally bring it to fruition.
My idea is simply this love of one's own fate which can be misleading because rather it would be better to say the acceptance of one's own fate. There are those that feel their realities have become stagnated and rather than to deny their fate and try to achieve greater they simply accept their conditions and go throughout the daily motions of their mundane existences. My idea is the exploration of how people have constructed their existence only to find themselves stuck in a conformative life that they choose not to reject.
As the photographer we construct and image. Whether we know it or not we choose what is to be seen, who is to be shot, how it is shot, when it is shot, and more basically why we shoot it. Much like people construct their realities, I as the photographer am constructing these images in a way that I want the viewer to see. Perhaps simple people will not even get to this point, but I have no interest in spoon-feeding the simpletons who choose not to stretch their minds, especially when looking at a basic principle of constructing an image. Next is my idea of what is seen. How do I represent someone's mundane existence? Do I clutter the visual senses with information? No, I show them scenes of life that are rather ordinary. Things we may see everywhere, but shot in an extraordinary way.
To shoot these "mundane" scenes is to prove how I have constructed people's mundane lives. I want the viewer to look at my image first then analyze it deeply. Why is it a simple scene? Why is it not more suggestive? Why is the light shown that way? These are questions I hope the viewer will be able to answer, with a little help because I understand that some ideas may need help. Next within these extraordinary "mundane" scenes I want them to question why there is a sense of wrong in the image. This is where I'm stuck at. Only 2 of images I feel capture this ideal that I used. The one in the hallway which I have called 'Sisyphus' and the one of the apartment with the hallway as well.
Normally you would find it troubling the way the light is directed, but I've done it in a way that can be overlooked at first and needs further analyzation. Lastly there is Nietzsche's idea of moral nihilism. There is no good or bad in life simply existence. This I have rather simply done with color. Although it may be difficult to determine there is a shift of color palette between blue and orange. This dichotomy of color emphasizes how there is percieved good and bad, but in reality they are merely constructs of people.
Going back it may be a simple idea of love of one's own fate, but it is an idea of conformity. The idea that you live and die within your existence. Some may feel trapped in their existence that is considered trivial, but we choose to live it because we choose not to fight it. Perhaps they have stopped caring or perhaps they merely accepted their own fates and chose to love ever decision in some sense of the word.
-JP Amador
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
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