Living with COVID
This year it's been hard but we've had to adapt to the current situation we are in . Ever since covid we've had to take more care of are surroundings .and wash are hands or sanitise everywhere we go . we would have to work with the restrictions and find a way to use these challenges to help us be more creative.Artists are good at solving problems because they alway will come face to face with a problems but will always find a way to work around them ands turn there problems into unexpected artwork.That is also why artists are so good at solving problems because they can work with there mistakes .
Make Do & Mend means to me that we can do whatever piece of phototography and however it turns out in the end is alright because we can always work with are mistakes and learn something from it.
Instructions
Instructions are important in photography because it sets you a goal with what kind of work you want to achieve.In order to take a photo you have to make choice. what happens when these choices are made for you?
There are alot of artists that use instructions to help them create a photo. for example, John Baldessari. He used instructions to teach young art students .
I wanted to see what and how it would be like writing my own instuctions for someone I wanted to make it easy of people to do , and give them the opertutiy to be more creative with such a simple piece . for example:
I wanted to see what and how it would be like writing my own instuctions for someone I wanted to make it easy of people to do , and give them the opertutiy to be more creative with such a simple piece . for example:
- Walk to your closest park
- Pick up any leafs you find on the floor
- Throw them up into the air
- And then take a picture of them in the air
- It can be taken at anytime you want
I was given a task to take a picture of something that would remind you of a ''cold, rainy Thursday night in store''. Make sure you remind a consistent angle.no people must be in the photo and a deep memory should be in mind , white picking a place and or subject for the photo.
This picture was taken on a rainy day
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I enjoyed the fact that I wasn’t free to do whatever I wanted .And actually had a set of instructions that I had to follow. I like the way I had limited time because it helped me prepare for this image in a way .My camera camera angle and focus really made the picture come out better than expected.
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However next time I will experiment more with my camera choice and angles.
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Marcel Duchamp & the Readymade
Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa painting was painted by an italalin artist Leonardo da Vinci from 1503 to 1506 .When Marcel Duchamp to deface a work of art in 1919 he decided to choose the most iconic painting in the world. "Mona Lisa".
Duchamp intentions was to attack a painting everyone new. By 1919 ,'Mona Lisa' had become some kind of celebrity in art , re-installed in the Louvre, one of the biggest art museums in the world. |
Marcel Duchamp's ReadymadeLeonardo's panting of Mona Lisa looks realistic . But also like a cartoon looking . And it reminded me of a more abstract chilled coloured piece of art.
L.H.O.O.Q means in french ''she has a hot ass''. Duchamp had added facial hair to make a point by basically saying just by making the smallest change it can have a big affect on your work. L.H.O.O.Q is a readymade piece of work . Readymade means something that has already been done for you, but in art you would have to add something that would make it unique and something thats yours . Therefore L.H.O.O.Q is a readymade piece of art because Duchamp only brought a post card and drew a moustache on Mona Lisa's face. |
Responding to 'L.H.O.O.Q'
I wanted to recreate my own version of the readymade. I was inspired by Kensuke Koike. Here are some of my favourite images by him:
Experiment 1
These were the three original images I worked with . I really didn't have any idea what i could create but I just worked with it because it was already a ready made image that needed changing up a little.
I experiment a lot with the images I was given . And tired to re create all three of them as much as possible. However I personally think these to image here worked out better.
I feel like these worked out better because I had no idea what to do and I just took a risk and exasperated with what I got.
Sharon Walters
Sharon walkers is a London based artist who creates hand-assembled collages celebrating black women . she makes mixed media collage series consisting in over 250 pieces.
Both her art practice and work in the heritage at sector aims to provide platforms for those under-represented in the main stream each collage is a reaffirmation of the right to 'take up space' and be seen. The way Sharon would make her detailed cuts reminded me of Kensuke Koike. she used similar materials (photographs ,knifes, cutting mat) and manages to transform the images she works with to symbolize peace , happiness and joy. |
I decided to experiment with this technique to make my own layered 'Readymade' I chose a pictures from magazines to remake.
Experiment #1
These are the endings of my favourite recreation, simply because there wasn't much thought or planning to it, I just did it and hoped of the best.
What I have learnt from doing this collage is . Not thinking about helps make the ending result better.
What I have learnt from doing this collage is . Not thinking about helps make the ending result better.
Romare Beardon
Romare Beardon was born on the 2nd of September 1911. Hw was a founding memeber of the spiral, an art group based in Harlem. The group was aimed at discussing responsibility and what the African Amercian artist could contribute in the struggle for the civil rights. The type of Romare Beardon did was Mordern Art.
Hannah Höch photocollage analysis
Hannah Höch - Das madchen(the beautiful girl) , 1920
In this image the beautiful girl I can see a range of difference objects pieced together to form a collaged image. For example, at the bottom left corner you’ll see W women with her face cut out and light bulb where her face would have been. As the background image there’s a group of BMW logos. Looking at the BMW logo suggests to me that this is an German image because BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren weke GmBH, which translate to the Bavarian Engine works company. The name harks back to the company’s origin in the German state of Bavaria.
The most important part of this image to me has to be the stopwatch in the hand and the people’s faces. This is because the stopwatch could symbolise time and you can’t go back in time you can only look to the future. The people without faced could possibly show that they have either lost their faces or are emotionless.
The type of pictures that been pieced together to make this kind of image are everyday objects such as car wheels, light bulbs, BMW badges. The other type of picture in the collage is a dismembered woman’s body.
My alternative title for the collages would be"Women’s time is now". The reason why I would give this image that titles is because back in the 1920’s women didn’t have the right to speak so with this image being made it could show everybody that women probably predicted what could happen and the effects it could have on their husbands, so in a way this is a silent I told you so.
The three adjectives I would chose to describe this collage are:
The most important part of this image to me has to be the stopwatch in the hand and the people’s faces. This is because the stopwatch could symbolise time and you can’t go back in time you can only look to the future. The people without faced could possibly show that they have either lost their faces or are emotionless.
The type of pictures that been pieced together to make this kind of image are everyday objects such as car wheels, light bulbs, BMW badges. The other type of picture in the collage is a dismembered woman’s body.
My alternative title for the collages would be"Women’s time is now". The reason why I would give this image that titles is because back in the 1920’s women didn’t have the right to speak so with this image being made it could show everybody that women probably predicted what could happen and the effects it could have on their husbands, so in a way this is a silent I told you so.
The three adjectives I would chose to describe this collage are:
- Powerful- Because women didn’t have freedom of speech so having an image like this with more men than women is really powerful and special to society in the 1920’s .
- Careless- This is a kind of careless image in a way , because it’s a random section of image that form together to make an image. And with this being careless it helps in a way because the viewer of this piece will actually have to analyse the image and find the meaning behind it .
- Hopeful- This is definitely a hopeful image because in whatever way you look at this image ,whatever impression you get and however it makes you feel, one way or another it will get you thinking about how uncommon it is for int he 1920’s for a woman to be featured in an image. And if women were in an image like this the artist would be a man.
- What message where you trying to get across?
- How long did it take you?
- In the process of making this image did you think it would become as famous as it is today?
Matt Lipps
Matt lipps is a artist based in California best known for his photographical use of material. Lipps uses cut out images that he would find in discontinued publications and magazines, from that lipps would then create still life photography, lipps would deliver unique meaningful pieces.
Matt lipps has spent the past decade focusing on the relationship between sculpture ans photography. His photographic constructions rely on collage strategies, sculptural tropes and theater staging techniques
Matt lipps has spent the past decade focusing on the relationship between sculpture ans photography. His photographic constructions rely on collage strategies, sculptural tropes and theater staging techniques
Daniel Gordon
Daniel Gordon is an American artist who lives I. Brooklyn, New York . He’s best known for producing large coloured photography that operates somewhere between collage and set-up photography.
Daniel Gordon practices involves cutting images from the internet, digitally altering them, and using them to construct tableaus , which he then photographs . Gordon had had solo shows at several international galleries and had been included in notable group exhibitions including out of focus at the sacitchi gallery, Greater New York at MoMA PSI in 2010, and new photography in 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art.
Daniel Gordon practices involves cutting images from the internet, digitally altering them, and using them to construct tableaus , which he then photographs . Gordon had had solo shows at several international galleries and had been included in notable group exhibitions including out of focus at the sacitchi gallery, Greater New York at MoMA PSI in 2010, and new photography in 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art.
My 3D Photosculptures
Tabletop Sculptures
I decided to experiment with tin foil , newspapers and Sellotape to create a sculpture. I didn’t really have an idea of what and how I was going to make this work so I just placed my finished sculpture in front of some led lights , and had a mini photo shoot.
Those images where all taken In an indoor space . I used two apps for toning and a-bit of shadowing.
These where the only apps I had used to produce these images. Even though pic collage was used , it was used as much as Snapseed. What I really like about Snapseed is I can turn such simple images into something big due to the wide variety they have on the app.
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Hannah Hughes experiment
Hannah Hughes is an artist working with collage, sculpture, construted photography ang moving images . she as of some what a wide range of tones, which she'll use together and create something out of the ordinary. I wouldn't say that Hannah Hughes is one of my most favourite photographers, but I would say she's got a inspirational message that would inspire people. What Hannah Hughes does is take a small or big object that nobody else would look twice at, and somehow make us see this as the best piece of art.
As a result i wanted to see if icould create something with some type of meaning . I began looking through some magazines, finding images such as faces , hands ,legs , teeth , etc. I used a pair of scissors and began to cut. I used a pair of scissors and began to make some cuts . I had this idea that i would probably want to make this all perfect and net, but i then realised there was no such thing , so i done the work without thought, thinking about what to do next.
As a result i wanted to see if icould create something with some type of meaning . I began looking through some magazines, finding images such as faces , hands ,legs , teeth , etc. I used a pair of scissors and began to cut. I used a pair of scissors and began to make some cuts . I had this idea that i would probably want to make this all perfect and net, but i then realised there was no such thing , so i done the work without thought, thinking about what to do next.
I went through a next set of images in a different magazine .And went to do the same process but keeping in mind I wasn't suppose to have any negative space, i just hoped this time it turned out best than than last.
I wasn't really a fan of how the final outcome came out , but I knew I just had to carry on because out of some failure there would ended up being some success.
The final process of this was to emerge these two images together using two colours ,(I chose blue and purple).
WWW: The two colours I used blended well together, making it looking very abstract and unique.
EBI: One both of my collage I used more faces , hands, legs and so on. I think it would have been better if I mixed it to a lot more buy adding more objects.
EBI: One both of my collage I used more faces , hands, legs and so on. I think it would have been better if I mixed it to a lot more buy adding more objects.
Abstract advent homework
Prison photography
Klavdij Sluban is a French photographer , which focus on prison photography ,in juvenile prisons. The 8 minute video explained what it was like to work with kids in prison . He has worked with prisoners in the former soviet union ,France, Ireland , Salvador, Guatemala, and elsewhere. In other words the video explained the lack of trust the prisoners had towards Klavdij Sludan. And in a way that would be very understandable considering a lot of them might be gang members, killed someone, robbery or faced things such as abuse. But whatever they're in there for , would leave either a physical or mental scar, or even possibly both. So for a random person to come and want to take pictures of them would lead to them feeling some type of way. Once Klavdij Sluban gained there trust, prisoners started to feel a lack of emptiness, and frustration. Because in there eyes there was nothing to photograph. Klavdij taught them that the littlest thing could show a much bigger picture. What I like is the fact that Klavdij Sluban works with the younger group of prisoners. And he had already said that he'd only work with them. In my opinion the reason why I think Klavdij had done that is because , they are young and he's trying to show them a bigger picture of life, and showing them through a couple of pictures of what they are missing out on.
Six Frames
I watched a short clip another one of Klavdij Sluban, the short film ,which was based around him and his work in Georgian prison. The film had subtitles ,which I was very interested in. What I liked about the subtitles was the way the words were used to decide the relationship between Klavdij and the prisoners. I wanted to challenge myself and see how creative I could be with the subtitles. So I screen short my favourite moment in the film, and amid to limit myself to only selecting six images only. With having only six images. Here were my six frames.
I didn't really find finding images hard, and then making them into a story. I found it hard finishing it off through , meaning I'm used to writing or watching longer clips/films. So for me to be that limited , it was hard to leave it off there.
Nicolo Degiorgis' prison photography
Nicolo Degiorigis takes photographs in prisons , to inspire prisoner's and give them hope, and to widen there creative side while still being in a very toxic and lonely place .The book is a collection of 17 shots taken by the inmates , during the course taught there the photographer had been working with them from 2013 and 2017. The book is divided into a range of photographic techniques , the book is aim s to alert and bring some type of reflection on the medium of photography .Photography in prisons is the best thing for them because it brings a sense of hope, escape , and ability , something they have never really thought was possible .
A Virtual School Trip to New York
Because of lockdown where limited to where we can go . But in this lesson we were told we could go anywhere in New York and take screen shots , like we where actually there. I found this quite fun , because it was just something different . And I could really explore the whole of New York , like I was actually there . The locations I had picked where all very random . If I stayed in one spot it would have been boring so I went to different areas and stared zooming in on one spot and moving my finger left and right , to find my image that I want. Coming to the end once I had got my images I had to edited them . I didn't do to much only things like bighting the image , sharping it, but I was really just experimenting with what I could do . A photography doesn't always have to be one person standing and taking a picture of something right in front of you. A photography can be taking a screen shot using a phone , camera , tripod etc. Here's the outcome.
Instructions for experimenting with a 'found' photography
In this photography lesson , we were given a found image to recreate in different shapes and forms with different instructions.I don't know if I really liked this idea of retaking a already found image ,but I think maybe it was because of the picture itself I don't know.
Google street view bingo
- Taipei - Fruit
- Rome - Graffiti
- Nairobi - Sport
- Brasilia - Water
- Athens - Yellow Car
- Kingston - Arrow
- Taipei - Tall Building
- Helsinki - Animal
- Asmara - Person Pointing
- Paris- Coca Cola sign
- Lima - Bridge
Blindfold collages
This exsperement was to prove that covid cant stop us from taking pictures .Because of covid we aren't able to go outside and take as many pictures as we would want to , so we have to work around that and try and make something of the same standers that would still look imagnative .
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This wasn't a challenge I in joy that much , but i loved the outcome more than the process. It was interesting when I took off the mask and I realised what I had created . Because i saw everything that was made , was made by my hands . And I think the fact that I wasn't able to see made the whole investigation more worth while . Because when looking at what equipment you've got , you then have an idea of what to create and half of the time you expect it to turn out exactly have you imagined . So just having only my hands and not my eyes to help me , really made me think about the bigger picture . And understand that things had to go wrong, for things to turn out right . Because thats what makes the art more meaningful.
Personal project
Todays task was to make a make mend and make do project , but with are own idea. I'd made three possible ideas, all based on fashion. All because with fashion and modelling its easy to re-create.And make do of any image I could find and bring an interesting twist to the idea , with something detailed.My ideas are either to re-create fashion outfits from the 60's,70's,80's , 90's and 00's . my second idea was to re-create different types of models based on the theme of diversity, and place them in all different shapes angles, to represent that theme of diversity. And show how different shapes , sizes and backgrounds can really just make one whole image come to life , showing that we are all human in one way or another. My last idea which was originally my first idea was to re-create pictures of peoples hair, but I could easily mix that with fashion , because fashion is the whole thing I can include anything into.
David Parise ''Barbie & Ken''
I doesn't have a favourite photographer but looking at more photographers I've come across one that I've taken a liking to and works with vintage barbie dolls. And something about David Parise's work really caught me . The project I'm currently in the process of doing is based around surgery, and how social media makes people think there's a ''perfect'' way to look. e.g. Barbie and Ken . There also a certain , height, skin colour , body image and hair type that social media expects us to look up to . Due to that people feel the need the only way to be excepted is by going under the knife.
However what I'm planning to do is not just to get Barbie and Ken as the main example , but to also show how badly surgery is can how it can mess up your face/body up , basically the things the media want to filler up , and airbrush away. Looking at David Parise's work which is mainly based around vintage picture from the 60's , it really shows that level of the typical Barbie and Ken .
However what I'm planning to do is not just to get Barbie and Ken as the main example , but to also show how badly surgery is can how it can mess up your face/body up , basically the things the media want to filler up , and airbrush away. Looking at David Parise's work which is mainly based around vintage picture from the 60's , it really shows that level of the typical Barbie and Ken .
Botched doll edits
Even though my project is based on how social media , and how we see are selves needing to look ''perfect '' . I feel that everything in the modelling and social media is all based around Barbie & Ken . I think they've set such a strong image on the way people sees themselves and the life styles people want to live . I had the right idea at the start . I'd planned to take pictures of Barbie dolls and Ken dolls and just show the difference between Barbie & Ken then , and now . However with these pictures I have taken they're not perfect, and neither are there clothes . A lot of them are either tapped up or bubble rapped up . And that just represents them being trapped . I didn't really think that really brought the message across though, because some could see them as just being tapped up. So thats when I came up with another idea and decided to photograph long listes of recipes and editing the dolls faces before and after , just to make it seem more realistic in a way .
Society has made people think you can only look better when you fit that certain look, and by achieving that, you need surgery.
Here are some images of all different types of men and women, embracing either their skin conditions, race, ethnic background, height and body size. The last few images are screenshots taken from pretty little thing and boohoo. Two popular clothing websites that sells clothes for petite, tall and plus size people
Positive body images
Natural simple fashion
My next two part of this project is more focusing more on outfits that you would see on your typical barbie doll. I want to show that you can all different types of outfits and hairstyles with also a limited amount of make-up. What I'll be trying to show is , with having that exaggerated
look , you can take that away and turn it into a more realistic image. And I'll be posting my aesthetic themed work , on my Instagram (Newbarbiefashion).
look , you can take that away and turn it into a more realistic image. And I'll be posting my aesthetic themed work , on my Instagram (Newbarbiefashion).
Some history about surgery
Non -surgical jawline contouring - To add fillers to strategic points on the face to create more of a straight line and angle form from the chin to the right ear below. The cost for this would be £500- £2,000.
Non -surgical cheek augmentation- A cheek augmentation refers to refinement of the bone contour of the cheek area. This is usually accomplished by placement of fitted ''implant'' directly on the bone of the cheek. This would cost around, £1,000 - £3,000 however for a long lasting affect that would be £5,000 - £10,000.
Brazilian but lift also known as a BBL. Even though there are plenty of different names and types of surgeries, there's are only a few that I was mentioning. However a bbl is the most common now a days . A bbl is when your surgeon suctions another area of your body to obtain fat- usually the abdomen, Flanks, or thighs-and injects it into the buttocks to add volume. It can cost between £3,000 - £30,000.
Influencers that have had an BBL :
Kim Kardashian
Virginia Gallardo
Amber Rose
Kylie Jenner
Miss R Fabulous
As well as celebrities and influences promoting surgery and tell people its not that bad. There are some people that go to the wrong places and as a result there surgery doesn't come out as expected , for example Miss R Fabulous.
Non -surgical cheek augmentation- A cheek augmentation refers to refinement of the bone contour of the cheek area. This is usually accomplished by placement of fitted ''implant'' directly on the bone of the cheek. This would cost around, £1,000 - £3,000 however for a long lasting affect that would be £5,000 - £10,000.
Brazilian but lift also known as a BBL. Even though there are plenty of different names and types of surgeries, there's are only a few that I was mentioning. However a bbl is the most common now a days . A bbl is when your surgeon suctions another area of your body to obtain fat- usually the abdomen, Flanks, or thighs-and injects it into the buttocks to add volume. It can cost between £3,000 - £30,000.
Influencers that have had an BBL :
Kim Kardashian
Virginia Gallardo
Amber Rose
Kylie Jenner
Miss R Fabulous
As well as celebrities and influences promoting surgery and tell people its not that bad. There are some people that go to the wrong places and as a result there surgery doesn't come out as expected , for example Miss R Fabulous.
Dennis Neal Vaughn response
I had gotten into contact with Dennis Neal Vaughn and interviewed him because he's a photographer that I like. He's very creative with his work and the way he uses his camera.
Changes
The insta collage filter ideas
Dennis Neal Vaughn's art work on his instagram is laid out it a collage format, with not every picture filling each square . He takes one image and cuts it up so we're only focusing on a certain part of the image . That layout really caught my eye .
Heres some examples from his instagram:
Heres some examples from his instagram:
I wanted to create something along the lines of that , but to do with social media . And how because high expectations are set for people. So people resort to adding snapchat and instagram filters on top of there image to create that appealing change for themselves .
My example :
My example :
Project Evaluation
AO1: For unit 1 I had researched alot of photographyers that photographed Barbie & Ken dolls. For example , instagramers Asherbutterfly , Barbie_and_Ken_dolls and Mariabarbieitalia. To find famous photographers that worked with Barbie dolls was really challengling for me , though thats why I had decided to look onto social media because I would have more of a successful outcome. My project is about surgery and how the genirasion sees social media as the "perfect" real life . So they feel as if the only way to look like that ideal image is to resort to surgery .When I had started this project I had many ideas but i was stuggling with starting the idea off . It was a very complicated idea I had started off with but because i had the right idea approch I new it would fall into place somehow. So the first place was think about the history and reasing behind this idea of surgery = perfect .When I'd started to carry out my reserch I was finding out all the dolls were tall with blond and brown hair , blue eyes and very skinny etc. However every single one of the images I had came aross stood out to me one way of another it was then I started to understand how much social media has such a big affect on the way people perseve themselves . Comparing celebrites that had surgerys to look like plastic I started to question , are they really happy? Do they want to look like this ? Sometimes there unhappyness , and mental state are written all over there faces but they paint a smile all over there faces . Thats another reason why the images I had taken wasn't reallly meant to be " perfect " it was supose to be reality that some people face from following the crowed and not there own path in life .
A02: The first experiment I had carried out was photographing dolls in bubble wrap and plastic celitape. That idea was to repersent them being tied up in a plastic world that was fixated around plastic . I wanted to go over board and played with the idea of there pending upcoming surgeys . Sop thats when i had brought in recipes to emphasised that all these surgeries do not come cheap . And by placing some of the recipes on the dolls bodys shows the possible next surgery. Experiment number two evolved around actual people and changing different parts of there faces.There wasnt much thought that went into this. But in a way I really liked that because its not suppose to be perfect its suppose to show all didn't types of people can go though that expectations vs reality stage.
A03: My last experiment was my final out come in away. It was a simple image to some but with a much deeper meaning behind it. It was inspired by Dennis Neal Vaughn an artist who photographed different parts of pictures in order to make one whole image at the end. This worked inspired me to filter rise my images using snapchat filters and Instagram filters to in a way make a catfish image . I took images of different parts of my face and hands to make the viewers focus on the different parts of the image farther than the image as a whole. Out of all three experiments I found the most challenging to be the last one . Reason being because putting myself in front of a camera on a day I didn't really want to and trying to find that right angle , lighting and pose etc , was a struggle.
A02: The first experiment I had carried out was photographing dolls in bubble wrap and plastic celitape. That idea was to repersent them being tied up in a plastic world that was fixated around plastic . I wanted to go over board and played with the idea of there pending upcoming surgeys . Sop thats when i had brought in recipes to emphasised that all these surgeries do not come cheap . And by placing some of the recipes on the dolls bodys shows the possible next surgery. Experiment number two evolved around actual people and changing different parts of there faces.There wasnt much thought that went into this. But in a way I really liked that because its not suppose to be perfect its suppose to show all didn't types of people can go though that expectations vs reality stage.
A03: My last experiment was my final out come in away. It was a simple image to some but with a much deeper meaning behind it. It was inspired by Dennis Neal Vaughn an artist who photographed different parts of pictures in order to make one whole image at the end. This worked inspired me to filter rise my images using snapchat filters and Instagram filters to in a way make a catfish image . I took images of different parts of my face and hands to make the viewers focus on the different parts of the image farther than the image as a whole. Out of all three experiments I found the most challenging to be the last one . Reason being because putting myself in front of a camera on a day I didn't really want to and trying to find that right angle , lighting and pose etc , was a struggle.
More behind the project
At the start I was really looked with what I wanted to do , and had many ideas. I feel as if the mind map I had created was useful in a way. From that I got to the idea of surgeries , Barbie dolls and how social media , sets such a strong image in are heads. Although I had that was my final outcome piece I also liked my others ideas, which was going to be based around fashion from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and 00's although it would have been a challenge to find models of my own and photograph them , It would have been a challenge I would have enjoyed . However what made me not pick that was it wasn't really unique , and I new I could think of better ideas that would be more original and meaningful.