Artist's Statement
Probably the most questioned of the objects I photographed is the giant Pokemon card. There were a couple of struggled I had with photographing it. For example, it is located indoors in my bedroom which gets a limited amount of natural light due the the trees surrounding our house. It is also very hard to get back on the wall if you take it off so I ended up taking the pictures sideways with it still on the wall. It wasn’t overly challenging but it proved more difficult to get decent lighting and an angle without my shadow than the other objects. The story behind the giant Pokemon card is that in fourth grade I wanted to dress up as a Pokemon card for Halloween. I thought that just a normal Pokemon was too boring, so me and my mom (mostly my mom) spent several days painting giant poster boards to look like a pokemon card. At one point when I walked away and let my mom paint the card, she added the wrong symbol in one of the energy circles. We then added suspenders on the inside so I could simply wear it over my shoulder. So for Halloween in fourth grade I was a giant Pokemon card. I always look at the card and laugh about the energy symbol being wrong, because nobody would notice it unless they really know their Pokemon cards. And for the most part, I do.
Probably the most questioned of the objects I photographed is the giant Pokemon card. There were a couple of struggled I had with photographing it. For example, it is located indoors in my bedroom which gets a limited amount of natural light due the the trees surrounding our house. It is also very hard to get back on the wall if you take it off so I ended up taking the pictures sideways with it still on the wall. It wasn’t overly challenging but it proved more difficult to get decent lighting and an angle without my shadow than the other objects. The story behind the giant Pokemon card is that in fourth grade I wanted to dress up as a Pokemon card for Halloween. I thought that just a normal Pokemon was too boring, so me and my mom (mostly my mom) spent several days painting giant poster boards to look like a pokemon card. At one point when I walked away and let my mom paint the card, she added the wrong symbol in one of the energy circles. We then added suspenders on the inside so I could simply wear it over my shoulder. So for Halloween in fourth grade I was a giant Pokemon card. I always look at the card and laugh about the energy symbol being wrong, because nobody would notice it unless they really know their Pokemon cards. And for the most part, I do.