Year 2.4 - Extracting

Short video about what I'm looking for during this project. Yes, I did notice the hair :) - haha.

My next step is to look for an environment that conflicts even better with the rawness of the stones and/or find a way to make the stones look like something else, whatever that may be! If it is even possible to make the stones look like something else, or if it's already something else by photographing it in a studio!? Or is it still just a rock?

I strongly feel like the camera and the environment creates something of great value out of these rocks. Another interesting question.

I figured by removing these items from their environment, I changed their meaning. I took away the pure energy it holds, the rawness.
By photographing (for example the stones) in an artificial way, changing its environment, I may also be able to change the stone's essence, if that's what I want. It's that conflict that holds my interest (the camera lies, remember). What happens to the raw stones when photographed in a studio? Or even in a different environment? Is the stone still real? Did it become something else?

  

Video: Sand 

Year 2.4 - Between the lie & truth - update

Within my studies the research to illusion and truth became very important. There's a conflict that appeals to me. It seems the image, the idea became more important than reality. Reality is boring and the illusion gives us something more, it's attractive, different.

I have been looking for something pure, something real, perhaps even authentic. The example of the beach of Baudrillard (Blog post 'Year 2.4, Start' http://aliciavanloenhout.blogspot.com/2012/04/year-24.html) was quite interesting to me, which made me start looking on the beach. I photographed the raw structures of rocks and collected some sand, stones and water.