Blurred Night
2021
This project was about how to formulate a narrative in my own work. I had to take as many images as I could during a single day and from those images I had to choose one image that best illustrates my story. Some questions that I was asked were: What happened during the day? What stories emerged during the day? What were the worst parts of the day? What were the highlights of the day? Then I was asked to write about my memory of something that happened during the day that would grab the viewers attention.
The day that I decided to document was Thursday 5/6. My day started off like any other normal day, I got up made some food watched some tv. I didn't have any classes on Thursday so I decided to spend some time in the studio to work on a project. I spent several hours there and then met my friends at Deer Park at 7 for our reservation. I've been wanting to go to pitcher night for awhile now but they are always booked and you have to make the reservation almost a week in advance. We were all looking forward to having a fun and relaxing night where we could blow off some steam. I thought my time spent at Deer Park would've been a good opportunity for this assignment. So my plan was to take a bunch of photos with my friends. Sadly, taking photos ending up not happening, between being caught in the moment and knocking back some pitchers I completely forgot to take photos. My boyfriend and I went on a walk around campus after our reservation was over and that's when I remembered that I was suppose to be taking photos for this assignment. I thought it was a good idea to go be a photographer after having pitchers and some shots, looking at the photos the next day was pretty funny because in the moment when taking the photos I most likely thought they looked so good. Over the weekend I continued to document but I kept coming back to this photograph.
This image best illustrates how my Thursday night went but also how I've been feeling lately. I have been super overwhelmed with projects and things that I need to do for graduation. A lot has been on my mind recently and I feel like everything has been a blur. When I look back on this past weekend specifically everything is a blur, I did so much running around that it's hard to remember everything that happened. I have so much going on and I have figure out a lot of things that are in regards to school, graduation, moving out, and finding job that I feel like this accurately represents me. I feel like I am spinning in a million different directions and its causing everything to be blurry.
