I am the chosen one. I have the amulet.

Well how do you represent time through an image?
Initially I had no idea so I just looked at artist research, and went on a walk through town to think of some idea’s. What initially struck me was the waiting of people, waiting at bus stops, traffic lights etc, and even though groups were doing it, no one was acknowledging anyone else, like they were all stuck in their own world, oblivious to the rest of us.
This got me thinking about the unconscious time, time we’re not aware of passing, I.E day dreaming, sleeping, zoning out. I tried to capture this in un-staged photographs of the people around me, but clearly this was difficult as everyone tends to notice a great big SLR pointed at their face… standard.
So I tried a different approach, I made a questionnaire about the times, locations, the reasons for ‘zoning out’ and used that to stage some images instead. The most common place people went to go alone was their bedroom, so I asked people I didn’t know to be in my photographs. I felt it important that I didn’t know them so I wouldn’t be bias in the image picking process.  
These images came out better but there was a problem - was I giving away too much to the viewer? It was pretty straight forward what I was putting across.
So I set about using my room, to document and show the ‘in-between’ moments in life, without the use of people in my images. These came out… well I thought they were boring to be honest.
I took pictures in my room for three days, once in the morning, noon and night. The images looked pretty bland on their own, I even thought about a series, showing the subtle changes but this didn’t appeal to me, so inspired by multiple exposures I did a bit of an experiment. Using the negatives for one day, for each time of day, I loaded the negatives together to create one image in the darkroom. What this showed was a subtle change in my room, which gave an essence of a presence without their being one. The triple exposure confuses the eye and we have to work a lot harder to understand what is going on in the pictures. The subtle changes show how even though not much is happening, how we still impact the environment around us significantly over time.

Okay so I’m bad with keeping on top of blogging, even more so given that my first semester is on old school film camera’s none of your fancy pants DSLR’s here NO SIR. Which means I’m finding it hard to upload my work in progress… I have given in, and will soon be uploading the first sketch book I have completed, for a project entitled ‘Representation of time’ Don’t get your hopes up, all pictures of my book and work etc was taken just now on my phone, the quality will be petty poor, but you will get the jist.