The Day the World Turned Day-Glo
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how photographs function. What are we doing when we take a picture of someone? What does it mean to represent human forms visually, and how does that affect us? A photograph takes something that is mutable, changing, abstract—physical appearance—and codifies it, placing it in a value system of visual ideas and ideals. In these photos I tried to separate my subjects from that visual value system, to see human forms in a different way. I used collage, drawing, paint, and glitter to create an abstract mosaic world for them to live in—a world of confusion and possibility. It’s my hope that these photos will help me encounter and begin to understand a new way of seeing and living in a world I feel passionate about.
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Well. This is trippy.
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Log in to replythis is so perfect omg.
Log in to replyaww, I love these. Especially #9 for some reason :)
Log in to replyTHESE ARE SO AWESOME. Really, like, how dreams look like. <3
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Log in to replyI love all of them (especially the second one) they are incredibly gorgeous
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Log in to replyThis is so so so so rad! It’s one of the most innovative/creative collections I’ve ever seen! The colors and art and GLITTER are PERFECT! LAURA RULES OK GUYS
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Log in to replyi find something about this slightly frightening
Log in to replysimply brilliant! One of my favorite eye candys yet! :)
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Log in to replythese are glorious!
Log in to replywait everyone doesn’t see the world like this?
Log in to replyThese kinds of photos are rad! You can almost feel the emotional depth in them, and tell that they aren’t just some ‘trippy photos’. They have substance and feelings, I love them!
Log in to reply#9 is absolutely perfect!! I want to live here!!!
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Log in to replyI can’t chose a favorite one.
Log in to replyEVERYTHING IS SO PERFECT
I CAN’T
SUPREME.
Log in to replythese are really really lovely, but i dont think a photograph is necessarily a set and codified thing, i think a photograph can be just as abstract and changeable as a painting, especially when photographers play on the notion that people believe a photograph to accurately document objective truth. looking at surrealist photographers who were the first to play with that idea, they create really realistic pictures that actually make no sense when analysed or are not all they seem – their way of saying the world doesn’t make sense and just as when a person sees, they see something different from what everyone else sees; when a person looks through a camera they capture their vision not the truth. but i like what you’ve done, its you’re vision of the world and you’ve let us see that, i just believe it can be done with glitter and without xx
Log in to replyi agree with you, i think often photographs are seen as “the truth” or as “reality” and for me, putting paint and glitter on a photograph makes it more obvious that a photograph is someone’s interpretation of reality… not saying photographs w/out glitter are more like reality, i just try to assert the idea that photographs are something separate from what they are of in a more obvious way i think.
Log in to replyLauren! These are so pretty and cool! My favourite is #10, but I love them all!
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Gorgeous!
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Log in to replyGLOOOOOOW ON.
Log in to replyThat was frightening and fascinating at the same time.
Log in to replybeautiful !
Log in to replythese are so great!
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Log in to replyI love the colors in this! It’s so beautiful! :)
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Log in to replythese are nice :)
Log in to replyokay i am seriously freaked out! this morning i watched ghost world for the first time and then i saw a ton of ghost world stuff randomly on tumblr. then i listened to the day the world turned day glo for the first time this afternoon and now I see this! WHAT THE HECK UNIVERSE?!
Log in to replyA little bit scared of the colors, but I still wish the world looked like that…
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Log in to replyThese are so fresh, Lauren!
Your exploration into the form of photography and reality reminded me how much I loved learning about the birth of photography in my AP art history class and learning about the way it informed a change in styles / the meaning or purpose of painting (impressionism, post impressionism, cubism, surrealism, etc). It seems like this set makes a cool connection to that transformation in the arts.
Log in to replyI love this! Destroying any and all lines between art, fashion, and craft.
Log in to replyI thought these were real people. Very deceptive.
xx Domenic
Log in to replyI think these photos are… normal. I am sorry but I haven’t enjoyed this very much.
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Log in to replyI love how surreal these are – while still retaining the specialness that photographs hold. Amazing work :D :D
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Log in to replythese are incredible wow
Log in to replyUgh so beautiful and lovely Lauren
Log in to replySo trippy! Feel like I’m looking at a still of someone’s brain that’s high on mushrooms or something.
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Pictures like this are so strange, because they wouldn’t work if there was no photograph behind it although you can barely see it! Love it though!!
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Log in to replytrippy! beautiful! fun <3
Log in to replyso pretty, definitely one of my faves photo albums on rookie!
Log in to replyI love this.
Log in to replyso glittery and awesome!!!
Log in to replythese are absolutely fantastic! they sort of remind me of animal collective for some reason (that’s a good thing!)
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