Wednesday, March 21, 2007
New Proposal
So my first idea was to show how my life is different when I go from my moms to my dads house but I was thinking this morning there is something more interesting about their divorce. Usually when you think of divorce; you think of two people splitting up and if there is a child involved they sometimes come together for the child's sake until they become older and have their own life. Well my family is really confusing because my mom and dads sides would still be connected even if I wasn't part of it. The two people on the four wheeler are my cousins and they are engaged. Yes that may sound very strange but the guy (David) is on my mom's side of the family and Sarah is from my dad's side. Also, my aunt (my mom's sister) married my dads cousin and had a child so he is my cousin twice basically. Little things like this is why my families would still be connected even if they didn't want to be. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to show this yet but I thought about taking pictures of my cousins when they are at family gatherings on both sides. Although this may be hard cause I'm not sure if there will be any family gatherings before this project is done so I may have to go back to my original plan...
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thats really interesting... cant wait to more of your work on this project.
Ashley - I do really like your idea of visualizing divorce and what it mean. Certainly the photo of your cousins who are engaged gives a sense of how family can really become interconnected due to circumstanes. I understand why you say it is difficult to visualize - however, I do think it could be done. I did however like the idea of you visualizing how divorce affected you too - your mom's vs. your dad's houses. I think that is something that might be very interesting too. I don't know if you have a room at both places are they the same/different? Mealtimes at each place? What do you do at each place? Alot of possibilities if you think the other is going to be too difficult. However, the two are somewhat linked so you may start photographing your first idea and some of the second may just naturally come into it without you really thinking about it. I would pick something about divorce and how it makes you feel and then let's see how it develops.
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