Love & Union

Zahra Alshair
Shannon Duncan
Fundamentals of Photography 1307
Photograms
September 7, 2008

I did most of my photograms evolving around love, union, and hope. I used almost the exact objects on every piece to portray the different emotions you can get from the same objects depending how group them together. Since, all of them are abstract and don’t have a real definite or physical similarities to anything when put together. I think the themes or I should say, the feelings that are being portrayed in my photograms should be left to the individual’s imagination.

Photogram #1
This photogram was created to be a sort of romantic piece. I was hoping it would somehow portray a lovey dovey feeling from a woman’s point of view. Something like what magazine’s use to advertize women’s products. Since these types of work fantasize me, I choose to let this type of work inspire me to create this piece. I think this is my favorite photogram I have created so far. This piece was created by very simple objects like a fancy hair band ribbon, fake yellow flowers, and a misbah (a sort of crystallized little beads bracelet that I use for prayers).

Photogram #2
When I created this piece, I sort of didn’t know what I was planning to do. So I let my hand do the placing and I randomly placed objects that I thought to be delicate enough to represent a sort of a wounded love. Even though I used the same objects I used in photogram # 1 but placed them differently on the paper. This photogram painted a total different emotion for me, because the way it had a sort of rib cage imbedded where the ribbon was supposes to be. It made the photogram portray a sort of wounded love, broken union, or a broken heart.

Photogram # 3
When I created this piece, I used to different looking misbahas and shaped them into the form of two hearts. So, in the photogram they sort of look like two hearts next to each other ready to be joined. The ribbon at the bottom corner sort of plays the role of the “red string of fate”. The two yellow flowers were the rose pedals of the magical ceremony that’s taking place. For this piece I knew that I wanted to portray union and I believe I have succeeded in doing so.