March 3rd 2010

Today was our second critique with our UCF clients. Again, I was extremely impressed by their work and their progress thus far. I loved my clients picture of her and her husbands hands interlocked together with their wedding rings in clear site. I loved how she was able to go outside the normal definition of "portrait" as simply a picture of another person and came to a deeper meaning of the word. Her portrait showed love without words, showed people through their emotions opposed to their physical attributes. Her photograph corresponded perfectly with the theme of my blog, "Our Unspoken Words." Through that picture love, emotion, age, loyalty, security, and compassion were all expressed without the actual use of any of these words. The picture evoked these emotions within us and allowed us to gain insight into her relationship with her husband without language.

Another photograph that interested me was one a client did of his wife. The subject was placed in the left side of the frame with some negative space to the right and created a wonderful and fluid c-curve. This photograph was particularly interesting to me because the client said it was by accident that she was placed in the frame this way and attributed it to his lack of function with the left side of his vision. I thought this was wonderful actually because it shows that through art our flaws are able to create beauty. Something he though handicapped him was in fact a tool for creating a wonderful piece of art. I hope it made him as happy as it did me to see this take place and witness finding the good in the things we sometimes perceive as the bad.

All the pictures the clients took this week were beautiful. I loved the picture of one woman's grandchild. It was a beautifully framed shot of a beautiful baby and again was a way for her to express her love for her grandchild without the use of language. I also loved the picture of another man's dog. This photo too also showed the love he has for his pet and is very interesting because it shows a love that also needs no words.