{"id":1244,"date":"2017-04-20T14:42:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T18:42:20","slug":"sd-proposal-salam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-2402-spring-2017\/7-anything-but-photo\/sd-proposal-salam\/","title":{"rendered":"SD Proposal; Salam"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the self designed project, I am looking to generate and curate a collection of images that explore womanhood, the claustrophobia of family, self-care\/destruction, and the freedoms and challenges of living alone. I plan to incorporate images I have made throughout the semester of my room in Bowdoin and my family\u2019s house in Georgia with street photographs, self-portraits, portraits of friends, and images that capture patterns of light I have noticed that appear through the screens in my windows.<\/p>\n

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I will be looking to the following non-photographic sources for inspiration:<\/p>\n

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  1. Time Magazine articles about sleep\/ other self-help\/ informative health articles<\/strong>: I am interested in these articles to help me rethink my bed pictures and possibly create more images surrounding things we might tend to do that are detrimental to our health.<\/li>\n
  2. Concepts\/ mental images from my biology classes<\/strong>: These concepts and images inform the way I formally construct images (depth of field, zoom, cropping etc.)<\/li>\n
  3. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri<\/strong>: I read this book in high school and it dealt with a lot of the cultural struggles children of immigrants in the US deal with. I am interested in creating images that deal with reconciling being American\/Arab\/Muslim in the US.<\/li>\n
  4. The Lobster (film): <\/strong>I saw this movie when it came out last summer and I was really interested in the social commentary it made about relationships, marriage, and the perceived worth\/ self-worth of single people.<\/li>\n
  5. Pride and Prejudice (novel and film 2005):<\/strong> the story of a young woman in a large and somewhat overbearing family\u2026 I really like the idea of thinking about the ways in which Elizabeth Bennet was able to balance making\/keeping her parents happy while also maintaining her individualism in a claustrophobic space.<\/li>\n
  6. Phenomenal Woman (Maya Angelou): <\/strong>The language in this poem is powerful and I have found that I get a different idea\/ image out of it every single time I read it. I have found it both empowering and slightly troubling because I wonder how the poem might be different if she didn\u2019t use references to the woman\u2019s relationship with men as part of defining the \u201cPhenomenal Woman\u201d<\/li>\n
  7. The Color Purple:<\/strong> Another film that deals with what love looks like in a variety of contexts: family, marriage, friendship. This film also exemplifies some of my biggest fears surrounding romantic relationships\/ marriage.<\/li>\n
  8. Downton Abbey:<\/strong> This TV show is brilliant and deals with a lot of themes around what it means to be a woman in a family as well as a society but also deals with managing and reconciling the our own desires with the desires that the people that love us have for us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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