Dominic & his Polaroids

The strongest technical aspect of my work in the picture of my brother in the aquarium is the way I chose to spread the polaroids around the picture. I was able to break the plane along with creating a shuffled and almost thrown across the table look with the placement of the polaroids. If you were to rearrange the polaroids with the pictures that are inside each individual one, you would not be able to see the original picture; rather, it would look like a jumbled mess. The technical aspect that can be improved on in my work is the way I had cut my edges in order to break the plane. Although, I was able to physically break the plane like I was supposed to do for the project to be complete, I could've used a different tool to make the cuts much more clean looking.

The easiest part about this art activity was placing the sharks in the background as a symbol to represent my little brother. His favorite animals are sharks; therefore, it was relatively easy to find a nice picture of a shark to continuously copy and paste and place all around in the background. The most difficult part of this art activity was trying to place the polaroids all over the original picture in order to create the shuffled look. Although it may look easy, it is not at all. It takes a lot of time and thinking to decide where everything should be placed and which part of each polaroid needed to be erased.

I demonstrated the objective in this art activity because I used polaroids from the internet and duplicated them in order to make the picture look like there are individual polaroids of my original photo to create a masterpiece of one. I also broke the plane to make my brothers hand look like it is coming out of two of the polaroids to almost create a 3-D effect. Then I erased the original background and used the color blue and sharks to create a new background that symbolized my brother and his personality. If I could do this art activity again, I would only change the picture and the way I had placed the polaroids. I would use a brighter picture that is more visible than the one I had chose to use along with try placing the polaroids in a new manner to create a new look; then the picture would look completely different than the image I had created.