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今日からいよいよ大学院の授業が始まります。
今期のメインである写真の批評のクラスが今夜あるのですが、そこで簡単に自己紹介プレゼンテーションを行うという課題が出されました。
写真を二枚提示し、一枚目は今まで自分がどういった事を行ってきたのか、そして二枚目はそれがこれからどういう方向に向かうのかを示唆するものを見せて、原稿用紙１枚程度で一枚目の写真の説明をするというものです。
ちなみに１枚目はこのブログトップの写真で、二枚目はこれです。

ここに転載するので、もし読んで頂けたら問題点や改善方法などアドバイスいただけたらと思います。
それ以外でも、いい英作文の勉強の仕方など探しています。
Undergraduateレベルでいいライティングの練習になる授業を取ろうと思っていたのですが、どうも無理そうです。
というわけで、今学期は構内にある無料のWriting Centerを活用しようと考えているのですが、これだけでは十分じゃない気がするんですよね。ハッキリと自分の弱点さえも把握出来てないので、これは根本的に勉強し直さないといけない気がします。

An Introduction: Where I came from and where I’m headed.

　　　　　As you all can probably see from this image, I have mostly worked in a style of traditional street photography in the past few years. I started studying which parts of the world my vision react to over the other. As I walked on the streets snapping pictures, I collected images that somehow stuck on my consciousness in depth. I studied the images as I printed them, and then these collected images were put together into a book. At that moment, I realized that there was a part of me felt a connection between my memories and the images.

　　　　　Therefore, my current interest is how photography as an art medium can maneuver different audiences’ memories and emotions, especially in the manner of sentimentalism and nostalgia. At the moment in which a photograph is made, that image becomes a record of the past. Photography is sentimental and nostalgic medium in its nature.

　　　　　What I mean memories here are not always my personal memories. Rather, they are memories of human being, memories in our blood. They are something belong to more primitive side of us, deeper than our personal experiences. These primitive memories do not reside within individuals, but inherited from generation to generation. We share these memories as a whole group.

　　　　　For instance, one can look at a photograph and somehow relate to that image. Even if the image was taken whenever or wherever the person was never been, the memories embedded in human DNA recall certain emotions. I think this is because we share memories as human being in very deep level where we are not consciously aware. Therefore, I feel that the audiences complete my work when they relate themselves to the images.

　　　　　However, I was not fully satisfied with how my work was executed. Sometimes, within a single image, its contents and objects can divert natural instinct that I want to call out from audiences too much. The problem is interpretation owes a large part to social and cultural context in which an audience grew up. I started thinking that maybe I can find more abstract elements that triggers our memories in depth within the visual reaction of several images. That is what I’d like to experiment with my next project; to create more abstract affect to my audiences.