The term that I think about when I am considering what I want to do, is UNION. The term union denotates the uniting or joining two or more things together. This term will really help me gather my ideas and inspire me. This will help me understand what I am doing and what I plan to do.  

Although my final decision was extremely hard, I am positive that I want to produce a project solely focused on the interconnectedness us humans have with nature. The union of humans and nature. This idea is an idea that I have never thought about. I never thought that us humans were somewhat connected to nature until I researched about it and was majorly surprised. Researching about this fascination really opened my mind to creativity and really caused a reaction within me. It made me start looking at nature in a different way. This new discovery caused me to search for similarities between us and nature and still continues to do so. With this new obsession, I plan to explore this with the term union in mind and plan to show this extraordinary concept in my work and search intently for different ways we are connected to nature.  

I want to show the union between humans and nature.  

I want my work to impact people; I want to start a reaction. I want people to be shocked and surprised when they find out just how similar we are to nature. I want to create images that show this concept perfectly. I want to actively show all types of examples, examples that are not as common, examples where you must think a little bit to truly understand. I want to also show a mixture of human and nature. Create a piece where nature is part of a human. To show our inner nature.  

I plan to produce three types of photoshoots and ideas. These photoshoots and ideas will start to be developed on the beginning of march. The first idea will consist of different photoshoots of different people in a studio with artificial lighting. I will produce portraits of all the different people and take pictures of them at different angles. This will allow me to have flexibility when I edit the images in photoshop. After these images are taken, they are edited and adjusted. I plan to produce multiple photoshoots outside, like the park and a forest, to capture nature, for this idea. I will take images of mostly leaves branches and trees. I plan to merge the portrait of the people whom I will photograph; with the images I will take of nature. I may show this by incorporating nature into the portrait, to make it look like the person is part nature. This will create blurred lines between humans and nature. I can also show a merge by cutting pieces from the photographed face and replacing it with nature. I plan to act on all of these ideas.  

My second idea is comparing body parts and features with nature and juxtaposing them. This idea was inspired by Alicja Brodowicz work. Her project ‘visual exercises’ shows a series of body parts complying with nature. An example being the image she produced where she compares a potato with roots coming out of it with a human foot that is crooked. Her work explores the human impact on nature and her concern for the topic. Her aim, by combining nature and humans, is to show that we are interconnected and that our separate existence is impossible. This is something that I also believe in and want to act on, so I plan to produce images with the same structure and ideas as her.

I will produce images in the studio, where I will take pictures of body parts, like skin, stretch mark, hair and scars. I will produce these images in the studio because, with the artificial lighting and set up, it’s much easier to capture textures and patterns of the human body. Now for the images of nature, I will capture the images outside, like the beach, forest, parks and gardens. As they are taken outside, they will be taken in natural lighting which will enhance the beauty of the nature I will capture. After these images are produced, using photoshop, I will create the same format as Alicja Brodowicz did, edit my images in black and white, like she did. This format will most definitely help audiences understand my concept and inspirations.  

The idea behind taking images of  nature and romanticising it, comes from Edward weston. He often photographed nature and romanticized it by trying to find a deeper form of it which is exactly what I plan to do. Taking images of nature and comparing it to humans, is me trying to show this deeper form of nature.  

Moving on, my last idea was something that I thought of myself. Eyes are something that we look at when speaking to someone, without even realizing. We often ignore the beauty of them and forget how important they are; by comparing the eyes to nature and romanticizing human eyes by connecting them to nature will help understand just how linked we are to nature. I plan to do close ups of different coloured eyes. I will get friends who have different coloured eyes and closely photograph their eyes. This will be done in a studio, with artificial lighting so that it ensures that the intrinsic details in the eyes are captured as much as possible so that details aren’t lost. After taking images of the eyes, I will begin to look at different types of nature resources and explore which one is more suitable to each differently coloured eye. These images will be taken outside, like parks, forests, gardens and so much more, so that it captures the natural features of nature. After all the editing and cropping is done, I plan to compare the two. I want the structure to be exactly like the structure of the images I will make where I will compare human body parts with nature.  

All of the editing, cropping and enhancements will be done in photoshop and Lightroom. I plan to use photoshop to experiment with my images and create final products. I will also use Lightroom to crop and edit my images to produce final outcomes.