1 min 1 image: Michelle Dena

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Michelle Dena

Boogie "Queensbridge, Queens"

2004, Black & White Print

I selected this image because it speaks to me about emotion, as I look at each window I wonder what each household is emotionally going through. It's the kind of mystery that I would love to spend some time trying to unravel.

It is the architecture that makes it seem that everything is so close but so far apart. Not everything can be silenced behind the glass. The windows are transparent and so may also be the people trying to hide behind them. It is this contrast that makes one be a wanderer. It invites the viewer to pay attention to the little things in everyday life.

As I look at each window, the light and shadow remind me of the battles we go through every day.

ABOUT

This blog was inspired by the 1 Image 1 Minute written column in X-TRA and subsequent live iterations of the project by Micol Hebron. The inspiration for the 1 Image 1 Minute column was a similar project produced by Belgian director Agnès Varda (and later written about by Rosalind Krauss) for French television in 1983.

For this blog (and their assignment), students in Niku Kashef's photography classes are asked to select a photograph (that they did not make) that inspires or intrigues them in some way and to speak about it for exactly 1 minute (roughly 150 written words). Students post their name, the artists' name, title of the photograph, year the photograph was made and the medium along with their ~150 words.

In the second part of the assignment, students are asked to either use the image they chose to speak to OR a new image and make an inspiration image based on the photographic/2d design aspects of that image (eg direction/type of light, perspective, depth of field, focus, color palate, etc).

To add to this blog and contribute a post, please contact niku(at)csun(dot)edu