Need some creative ideas.....

[julie32]

hey all:

I'm reaching out to you in the realization that "we've all been there and can relate." I am not sure which category this question falls into, but you don't have to be a professional photographer to have gone thru this!

I am working on a project to photographically convey the pain of a harsh break-up. A tormented kind of love that could just never be. The two people still have extremely strong emotions toward eachother, highly angry and sexual, but still sweet and loving.

I do not want people in the photos. I want to do this symbollically. I'm making a list for myself of words that I associate with this situation (like pain, open, bleeding, hurt, sad, angry, lonlienss, the color red etc...) to see if I can personify them.

This whole thing is a touchy subject obviously, but maybe the art of expression will help to heal wounds.

Your thoughts and ideas are welcome.
Thank you so much,
julie

 

[penfold1]

fruit are good at conveying life, passion and sexual feelings. Just an idea.

 

[julie32]

interesting......didn't think about that! Excellent, penfold, thank you.

 

[dEARlEADER]

Jewelery in a pool of blood.... with maybe a love letter or something like that...

 

[Tyjax]

Try associating those more subjective terms that you have a list of with more concrete objects that universally speak in those terms.

i.e. broken relationships = broken picture frames/ torn photographs.
tears = water/rain/ running makeup...


the aim of photography is a nebulous concept, and the argument over artists vision vs. public perception can be endless. Never the less, if you want to express those more abstract concepts to an un-initiated public some visual commonality is needed.

Fantastic project idea and very cathartic... allow what you feel. see. hear. taste. do. in this situation guide your art. I hope to see the result.

Tyj

 

['stein]

Kinda similar to what dEARlEADER mentioned:

I think a ring of some sorts in a puddle on black asphalt or cobblestone.

(similar to something like this:
http://www.tritonmuseum.org/images/Paris Puddle.jpg )

Make sure to really pull contrast.

 

[julie32]

love these ideas guys. Its so incredibly helpful to have different opinions.
Thank you!

 

[sabbath999]

Send a PM to Chiller... he will have some ideas for you

 

[Mike_E]

How about things left on a table. Start with a fresh bouquet of flowers along with your main subjects and as you progress have the same bouquet in every shot. With each progressive shot the flowers should be a little more wilted.

Then a few with an empty vase. Probably pet food cans scattered along with whatever else. Bills maybe.

Then a fresh Bouquet.

Circle of life in metaphor and reality- if you can call being a floral arrangement "Life".

 

[julie32]

Mike, you put a big smile on my face. I needed it, thanks!

 

[Mike_E]

:cheers:

Any time!

PM me if you want to 'vent'.

really


mike