Yayoi Kusama

Artist Yayoi Kusama once did installation works on exterior field in order to blend her signature polka dots into the nature. Examples could be the pumpkin on pier, the polka dots on tress along a city road in Singapore, and polka dots floating on river.
The reason why Kusama applies Polka Dots in her entire art career is because that in her childhood, she suffered hallucination and severe obsessive thoughts. This experience enables her to fill her artworks full with the surreal pattern. In my final series I am also very interesting in using the pattern of polka dot to illustrate a different visual perspective. I notice the extreme contrast between the pattern and the environment, which is mainly through color. In later research I will look for information about how to apply color contrasty effect onto black and whit photograph. I have already had clear approach to the hue of blue.

OBJECTIVE-2

Under the same idea about a photographs from children I have another approach to photograph fantasy. In other word, the images left in kids’mind but not the real world. The best illustration about this idea is some film stills from director Michel Grondry, who excessively uses his childhood experience to his films and presents the world in a fantasy way. The way that I practice this idea could be to observe the things I see in a child’s logic for finding abnormal shapes and objects.

OBJECTIVE-1

The kids’gallery on the website provides a great source for me about image from a perspective of children, which is something that I am going to explore in my final photography series. From viewing the gallery I have noticed the most basic characteristics of the image that is low horizon and distort angle (the distort angle shows the ignorance of scholastic photographic rules). In connotative interpretation, the images embody the interesting objects from their viewpoint and their desire of capturing their interest that defends all the distracted elements such as consideration of framing and blurriness. Also, it is noticeable that images from their perspective can magnify normal size objects. Everything is gigantic in a child’s eye. All in all, the kid’s gallery enlightens me my potential desire of mimicking a certain perspective to take photographs.

:"“We believe that photography is an effective tool in igniting children's imagination and building self-esteem.” ":