stephanie's creative inspirations: 2011

Monday, May 30, 2011

patricia picinini

This art work really caught my eye because of the equisite way it has been made. I also found facination in the material and the patterns on the surface of the "skull". I want to make something like this, something that is realistic but fantas-tical at the same time.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

I Was Just Her Shadow

You may have noticed from my previous photos that I like to play around with shadows. I find shadows particulary interesting because it is always "black and white" and it give me a sence that we're moving along too fast and life is becoming like a shadow. I am just trying to potray in this photo is that many people look at the bright beautiful colours (representing the new technology we have for example a car), forgetting that the plain shadows can be wonderfull and incredible too (representing less high tech equiptment like a bike).

Lost Swallows

I really like this photo that I took mainly because it shows us visually a problem that everyone has to face. Pollution and Climate change. the battle between humans and nature. For me this photo is a very good example of the difference between humans and animals and the advantage that we have over them. Here a little swallow is shown, bairly the size of its enemies foot and although the human seems to fit in quite well with in the background and its surrounding the little bird is just trying to adapt to this rapidly changing world. In saying that this photo also shows how well the two could get along with each other if we tried. To be able to live side by side with each other. Without harming one another.

grabing iced dreams

This is just a little photo that I took which interested me because I found it to be clever. It could reperesent how in the current society there are so many ideas and so many dreams that we all share and that are all possible and so close to our grasp, but for some unknown reason we just can't reach out and take it. In this case it is just my craving for the Iced Coffee. But it can be a meaningful picture if you dig deep enough. just like everything else in this world.

A Changing Melbourne

I like these two photos equally as they are just close ups of different objects, however they both have one thing in common. They both have written upon them Melbourne City. I suppose if you wanted to look for a meaning in the two photos the first one could repersent how Melbourne is doing its part to help the pollution by issuing bycicles around the city. The second photo could repersent how Melbourne is also constantley changing as the photo shows how the flyers are torn away to make room for newer ones. I also like the brigt colours.

PriceTag

This is one of my top five of the city photos as it reflects how mankind has used something natural, like these flowers, as a resource to do something more "artificial". A.K.A make money etc. Also it shows how everything now has pricetags and that we are forgetting that there are supposed to be more important things then money.
It, in a way, reflects some of the conflicts of nature and humans but in a more subtle and un-noticeble way.
Also the flowers are very bright and because of this the price tag is very prominemt even though it is a plain colour.

Project: City

The following photos that I will post are taken by me at the city with my Olympus Tough, 12 Megapixels.

Since it is not a very proffesional camera I tried to add a metaphorical meaning behind them.

Of course considering that it was a task to be completed in the city,

I have captured moments which, to me, relates to the imbalance between nature and humans.

The alarming rate at which technology is forming and the fears that I have of not only MY future but everyone elses futures, in hope that we will not become too dependable on technology.

But I am also trying to potray how we can maintain this delicate balance and how (although it might not seem like it sometimes) humans and nature CAN and ARE co-operating.

Hope you like the pictures and understand what I am trying to potray through them.

Enjoy, Stephanie Chen.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Inspirations Since childhood

It seems like a good place to start my inspiration page with true inspiration. A true artist in the making of films etc. Walt Disney has inpired many ( including me ) since their early childhood with the original classics.

Stephanie Chen