Dream Response

The dream that I was given was a blank piece of paper.

I was given the option to change for a dream someone had written but I wanted the challenge so I chose to stick with the blank piece of paper. I wasn't really sure on how to respond to it so considering the project was a dream, response I looked into what dreams of nothingness mean. I found that when someone dreams of nothingness it suggests that something is missing or lacking from their life, so it could be a sign of loneliness but I didn't want to have a photo that was obviously to do with nothingness I wanted to try and photograph loneliness while incorporating and element of nothingness so I wanted to try and get a subject to focus on with a background that would be plain and maybe slightly blank.
In halls I have a friend that is from the Falkland Islands and only her sister has come over with her so she gets really homesick and misses her family quite a lot so I thought that would be person to use in a nothingness photo as it would give the photo more mean rather than just using someone random. I asked in advance so not to have ethical issues of exploiting her loneliness and she was okay with me using her in the photo.

My first photo is one of her looking out to the see, the fact that she lives oversea went well with the fact she was looking out to sea as if she were looking out to her home in a sense. I feel the nothingness element in this photo is good due to the constant and ongoing sky, sea and beach that feels like it could go on forever and the is nothing more. While I was taking the photo I had to make sure that no birds flew into the frame and there were no boats in the sea to make sure nothingness was a constant theme. I didn't think this at the time but now looking at the photo the small heaps of sand in front of her could be another representation of the Falkland Islands.

I always love the idea if long corridors and darkness because its a scary idea that things go on forever and there is nothing more, also the fact that this photo is in Halls where she lives kind of shows the lack of her being at home and having the element of a 'home' is  the thing that she longs for and is that cause of her loneliness.

I really don't like this photo, I loved the first one and quite liked the second but it got difficult to find other areas that went on into nothingness like the sea or a corridor, the best that I could think of was a forest as it could go on forever but I was unsure how it really linked it with the Falklands. Also when I looked back through the  photos to find the best three than would go as a sequence I noticed that the colour colour was black and in this photo there were bright colours. I didn't intend for the black clothing to be a thing but the colour black goes well with loneliness and sorrow.