Pure

"PURE" was a week project in which we had to create an appropriate response to the word. Thinking and imagining Purity in context of religion I decided this would be the most suitable route. When It came to mind I was seeing virgin Marys and halo's and even crucifix. This then to me brought up the question of why I did think of it. Im not Christian, so why was It that I would relate a possitive and God-like word to someone else's religion. An other religion was Buddhism. I then briefly looked into trying to create some sort of imagery mimicking the Hindu Elephant Ganesh. I did this by correlating it to the students of 2009.... so my mind instantly took me to using a beer bong as a trunk.

No students were harmed in the making......




This image above was tried and tried again.... I tried to create the setting so the light of the lamp behind my friend who create a ring around her head much like a halo.... TURNS OUT THIS IS QUITE HARD TO DO!
This is Ganesh - The basis of my attempt.



This idea of developing my own set of images with cultural relevance began to form. I wanted to mimic what the poses and positioning were saying though our modern day spin on it. For example my friend kindly created a symbolic preying pose for me, much like the Madonna would tend to do. I then on photoshop began to play with these images for different effects. This one in particular turned out looking very classic in the sense that the quality is much like an old painting.




Then Virgin Mary images started forming.... the bottle symbolic for the role of a baby in the original classic images.





The red cloak worked well as a draping effect which was similar to that of which Mary would wear, but the colour was wrong and actually ended up making my friend look like red ridding hood. I then was able to change the colour of the cloak for the final pice to show more similarities to the original.

An other small photoshoot i created was about the same theme with a different approche and a different model.... i used the virgin mary look to the extreme this time and tryed pushing the boundaries. Un intensionally its actually eneded up looking quite like mug shots of virgin Mary, which almost has created a hole new concept in itself..... AND ITS ONE I LIKE!