Yes, sigh, I know; nothing for ages and then two posts in one day. I've spent the day consolidating my list of outstanding posts going back now ONLY to 2015. I will get there, eventually. Whilst so diligently engaged, I found this post from a visit to the Portimao Museum, Portugal in 2011 and thought it worthwhile revisiting in light of my OTS (quilts-by-me blog) and other artistic endeavours.
Portimao: Photo Marathon. The Portimao Museum had organised a Photo Marathon Competition (2011) and on our visit we were fortunate to see the creative results. Firstly there were 2 categories – Underwater (serious underwater camera work) and Digital. Each category was then broken down into a series of themes to which the entrants had to produce 3 A4 sized photos. Digital for example, had 8 themes and therefore needed to produce 24 photos. These photos were simply mounted on card (no frames) and exhibited in theme order.
Seeing
them made me understand why the winner had been chosen. His work was essentially the tightest – all
photos were portrait, all perfect close-ups that complemented each other, of
subjects that spoke clearly of each theme yet related well as a whole. The colours were bold and dramatic subject
lighting was well balanced throughout.
In this way the whole worked as a complete presentation, flowing well as
a design, almost mosaic like in quality, which fitted the surrounding old city
(and its pavings).
Being
a quilter I got a little caught up in this project. A big part of working in textiles is taking
the time to stand back, balancing the “pieces” or blocks into a well-balanced
whole. So, I learned quite a lot about the
value of working in series; imagining connections between a single work, a series
or indeed of a larger body of work – just like an artistic mind map. Fascinating.
I
sadly don’t have any photos of these photographic works at the Museum (no photos allowed) so I’ve
included some general ones from their collection instead to add to the watery theme.
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