9-23-09 Idea Post

I am so frustrated by some of the responses I've gotten on my critique blogs. My efforts to explore new materials, whether or not these happen to be fake animals or not, has nothing to do with me being lazy or saving time. Maybe I am being misunderstood so I will try harder to be clear from now on.

I HAVE decided to use a combination of fake and real animals (or animal parts) in my most recent idea and I'm excited because I will finally be leaving the 'scanner realm.' I am also sticking with the yolk in this photo and plan to set up the shot in my basement... around a creepy bathroom which some of might have seen in one of Jenn's previous projects. It's more like an indoor outhouse if that makes sense- a toilet in an indoor stall. On the side of the stall I will be mounting fake bird heads on plaques. I won't go into too much detail on the angle or composition of the shot as I intend to vary it up. As far as lighting goes, I will be using a flashlight- also something new for me.



I will be shooting in digital but would ultimately want to photograph in medium format if this idea is successful and a concept begins to take flight.

After talking to several friends about the idea above I got an interesting response. I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise, but I've been told that my art seems to be about pro animal rights and life. It's not what I would say my work is entirely about but I would agree that I have strong feelings for animal's rights. I'm definitely not one of the protesting or going vegetarian types. What I do have a problem with is eating meat straight off the bone. I do wonder why THIS is where it crosses the line into something barbaric and something I WILL NOT DO.

Back to the point: RESEARCH

While being stuck on my 'egg fever' I checked out several grocery stores to see if they had more exotic types of eggs. My biggest hope was Whole Foods out in Shortpump because I read online that their NY store had quail, duck, and ostrich eggs. Alas there was no luck here in VA. I did find a website that sells exotic meats- everything from zebra and tiger meat to quail and emu eggs. I haven't decided whether or not I will order something from them because shipping alone is over $20 (cheapest 2 day method).

Boneroom.com also provides emu and various other eggs, but they are blown and clean (meaning no yolk or egg mess). They are also almost have the price of the eggs on the exotic meats website. Shipping would probably be much less expensive as well. I'm not sure whether the egg mess is what I might want to work with or if it is the shell. We shall see...