So I just wanted to start off by saying that I'm really sad that this semester is so closed to ending; I woke up this morning and realized that in exactly a month I will be on a plane back home to the United States, which is crazy scary and I don't even want to think about it because it seems like I just got here (minus the ridiculous amount of stuff that I've done between when I first arrived and now)...
But anyways, on a less emotional topic, I've figured out what I want to do for my ritual and final project. I am going to be combining my Regan and Ken projects together to make one project. My idea stems from my midterm for Regan's class in which I altered famous works of art by taking things out or changing them around. One of my pieces was of Rafael's "School of Athens" in which I removed all of the people, leaving only the architectural background. This piece is what has inspired me in this new, "ritual" project. I am taking pictures of the Botticelli Room at the Uffizi, focusing on not only the works of art but also the tourists who come to view them. My goal is to take one of these photographs and then "remove" all of the figures from the paintings so that the tourists are only viewing the backgrounds of these famous works of art.
Especially now because tourist season has started there are tons of tourists everywhere and the Uffizi is no exception. My goal is to illustrate the ritual of "non-art people" (meaning tourists who go to museums and see these famous works of art because that's what they are "supposed to do") going to museums and seeing the few highlighted works. What happens when you remove what these figures that what are viewed so often are no longer there? I then want to further this idea by asking/answering the question of where are the figures if they are no longer in the paintings? So I will probably create a diptych of two photos: one of the Botticelli Room without the figures and one of Florence life with the figures (possibly a café scene, but right now I'm not quite sure what the second picture will be)
So thats basically it for now... until next week, CIAO!!!
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