Subject Matter

 As a short exercise we were shown a few examples of conceptual art from the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Hannah Hugues. We were asked to come up with 3 examples of similar content for the 2 hour workshop. I already had a mini studio so, I set it up (with it's one working lamp) and set about completing this task.

 As a first attempt I decided to borrow a mannikin from my daughters bedroom.  I found out it was missing one of it's feet so I decided to show this exhibit to emphasise that it had a foot around the house somewhere but it's location is unknown. I modelled the mannikin so it gives the illusion that it knows that it is missing a foot.

The second photo that I worked on is just a simple one of a toilet duck. I decided to use one of the in-camera effects to emphasise the contours of the subject and to make it more interesting. The headline I used is to signify that there is more to the word duck than the animal itself and can be applied to anything that can be associated with the word "duck".

The last photo was made up of some spongy things that was hanging around the place for a while. Whatever these things are in reality I have no idea but they did look quite phallic. The concept of this was to show that there are many balls to the subject and to treat the subject as plural.

As a conclusion, I thought given more time I could have come up with better conceptuals. I did not reset the camera and could have done them in black and white with high contrast to emphasise the subject. However, I did like the pink background it gave me as I set the camera to vivid colours and I think it went well with the colours of the subjects.