At this point I'm pretty confident that I'll be using altars in each of my images. I'm actually struggling with calling them altars because I think that's a pretty loaded word but I don't know that there's really anything else to call them. I want them to represent some kind of loss for the sitter, not necessarily a loss from the reality of the model but one that I am projecting onto them. I also want to toy with having the altar on its own in the space but with room around it so that a person could inhabit that space. I think that might have some interesting implications. I'm also still toying with the idea of shooting outdoors but maybe scrapping the idea I had before about the tree in the field (although like I think I said before as well, I may just make the image to get it out of my system). As far as the outdoors goes I was thinking again with domestic spaces such as front and backyards. I don't want to stray too far from the home because I think that's where the mourning/honoring process mostly takes place (with the exception of public ceremonies that occur at places like cemeteries but as much as I love cemeteries I think it would be wise to stay away from them).
I've been doing a lot of looking around for the pieces that I want to use within the altars and have been looking back at the list that I made. I found a couple artists that I will be doing blog posts on who work with assemblages, kind of in the vein of Rauschenberg. I think that would be the best way to go about the altars but I'm concerned with making them the main focus because I really like having people in my pictures. I want the assemblage to reflect the sitter in some way. I've got a lot to think about still.
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