Wednesday, January 24, 2024

ARIANNA ALMAGUER - WEEKLY SELFIE 1- KITCHEN TABLE - 1/24/24



                                            Carrie Mae Weems - The Kitchen Table Series 

                                                    Recreation of The Kitchen Table Series

- Carrie's artwork of " The Kitchen Table Series" inspired me to recreate what I do on an everyday basis. Im always at a table reading a book. 

Susan Sontag Quotes

1 - "To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge -- and, therefore, like power." 

2 - "What is written about a person or an event is frankly an interpretation, as are handmade visual statements, like paintings and drawings. Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire."

When reading these quotes that caught my attention, she goes on about how photography changes our view on the world and that photos can turn into knowledge and power. Contrasts of the photos and emphasizing it are sometimes seen like a miny version of a reality. Photography may lead into a more abstract of an understanding of our world. 

Carrie Mae Weems Quotes

1 - “there is the span of a romantic relationship: at first warm and intimate, then cold and wanting

This talks about relationships. At first a relationship would be warm and intimate, and this can go on for days, months, and years. Later on, time does change in a relationship, and it leads people to being cold to one another but wanting one another because of how much time that two person had spent together. That’s what I'm getting from this quote. 

2 - “Everyone can relate to this work,” Sann said. “It’s not just Black women; it’s white women, Asian women. Men can see the women in their lives—memories from their childhood or scenes from their marriage or their family life. It’s so universal and yet representation like this is so rare.”

The works that you see to be Black women and their daily lives, many women can also relate to what a home looks like on a daily basis and its so rare to see it photographed.


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