Faceyourpockets.com is a very interesting website that I find myself continually going back to, to look at the compositions posted. This website is an on going project that encourages anyone to contribute to. At my last inquiry, there were 232 contributions to the site. The site asks people to empty their pockets onto a scanner and create a composition with the items that they carry on them. The end results are very interesting.
I think that the items a person carry on them can really say a lot about a person. You can really get a feel for what a person is like by looking at the things from their pockets. I like that in many of the submissions, the artists have carefully laid out a composition. The placement of the objects on the scanner were carefully thought out and many of the artists are interacting with their belongings.
I think that the things in a person’s pocket create an environmental portrait of that person. In an environmental portrait, a person uses an environment and objects within an environment to portray who they are. The things in the environmental portrait are very telling of their lives. Many environmental portraits use metaphors.
In the submissions on this website, one can really tell what a person is like by what is in their pockets. One can tell if a person is simple and carefree if they do not carry a lot of stuff on them. In many of the submissions, people have an overwhelming amount of things in their pockets. I think this is more telling of what these people are like, complicated and busy. Many of the submissions include photos of loved ones and most include a cell phone and money of some sort. It is all very interesting and telling of the times.
u need to be more active... all the sites u have mention, thus far, in this blog have an interactive or collaborative element..
ReplyDeletewhere is ur contribution?
also, it is important that u write and read ur text, and then revise it before posting... all u have written here could be said in the first two paragraphs... there is a lot of redundant information here..... if u do not have anything else to say, think harder or find something else to write about..
how about "why would someone want to make their private possession public? what is it about the internet that drives people to reveal intimate information that they might not do so in real life?"