This week I was given the brief for the fmp and I spent the first few days thinking over multiple ideas and deciding on one that would serve me for 13 weeks. I decided to focus on the concept of change, shown through nature as this project stretches across the transition of winter to spring, giving me the environmental opportunity to capture it. Initially the idea was simple however after further development I dove deeper into the idea of change and decided  to explore what change actually is and what we mean by the word. Is something changing if it is following a natural process? Does it change if it is expected and familiar? Which changes are we surrounded by all the time and consequently blind to?

 

I felt drawn to exploring this idea because my life has changed a lot recently but in small ways that are hard to name as they aren't big  changes such as moving house or leaving a relationship, they are smaller, more unnoticeable but still there. The same thing happens in nature, countless small changes are what allows us to have different seasons, they don't change overnight or all at the same time and therefore it becomes more unnoticeable because it's gradual. My intentions are to capture the small moments that we all don't pay much attention to. Additionally, these changes are all unique and original, they never happen the same way again, and so in doing this I want to capture impermanent moments and make them permanent in photographs. 

 

This work will hopefully allow people to pay more attention to things they usually subconsciously ignore and also appreciate the small changes in nature that make the continuation of it possible. Linking to this, a big exploration in this project is showing change as a continuation instead of a disruption. 

 

After solidifying my idea, I spent the week making mood boards and mind maps and initial written ideas to strengthen my idea and explore it deeper, getting inspiration from images similar to the ones I have in my head and annotating them with the specific details that i like about them and want to achieve in my own.  

 

Next week I plan to do my first photoshoot after I have found and looked into multiple artists for inspiration, starting broad on big noticeable changes to allow a natural development into smaller more nuanced moments as my own perspective grows simultaneously.