Truth

This project is about the learning process of using a medium format camera for the first time. Exploring any new medium (no pun intended) is always interesting to me and so I decided to couple this with the exploration of a totally foriegn environment as the subject matter. Searching for found objects and places is always fun to me and working in pouring freezing rain with a malfunctioning camera turned out to be my truth aspect of the project. When I devoloped my very first roll of 120 film I had 5 negatives - the rest were blank - the exact number of prints required of me. I enjoy finding abandoned, run down, desolate places and pulling from the resources available the items I deem worthy of a closer inspection. This is what i am presenting. Many responses to this project included feelings akin to an M. Knight Shyamalan movie and/or a creepy serial killer witching ground atmosphere. This couldn't be further from the mundane truth I was trying to capture. I was mainly interested in the passage of time, the why and how of the formation of the 'clump' of grass I found, and what natural forces made this 'mini crop circle' come into being etc. This clump was surely something we would normally be unware of and overlooked - and that to me made it become even more meaningful.