Kioloa Review

Textures on the beach

Kioloa! What a great get together! Not only was this trip a time to do school work, but it was a great experience of getting to know each other and the second years, working with different people, and exchanging ideas, techniques and concepts.

My idea of Textures on the beach came from what the beach means to me, and how I see it. When I think about the beach, I see sand, waves, sea shells, rocks, seaweed and small washed up objects. As a small child I remember travelling to the beach with my family for holidays. I lived a long way from the beach, and as a way to remember what fun we had, I would always collect small tokens such as these. I was interested in pretty things with different textures. This is partly what helped me to decide to do ‘Textures on the beach’ as my theme for the trip. This way I could take home beautiful pictures of these tokens, as a way of reminiscing on my childhood memories.

The reason I decided to involve the beach and its surroundings; pathways to the beach, rocks around the beach, sand, patterns and objects were because I wanted to incorporate the whole area. While we were at Kioloa we would walk in groups to the beach and find many interesting things along the way, and because this was a ‘beach’ trip, it works well together.

Selecting and cropping my final images came about when thinking of how I wanted to present them and the order in which I wanted them to flow. I wanted the images to come together in a nice pattern that reflected the theme ‘texture’.

During the trip, I took many photographs within my idea that I am very happy with, but when it came to choosing which ones to put as my final selection, I needed to pick the images that would work well together, and didn’t repeat themselves, such as having multiple images of sand or white wash.

I believe my final selection has come together well, I ended up choosing only four images, but this is because I found them to fit well into a nice pattern, if I had of used any of my other images, they may not have flowed together as id like them to. I have placed the images in an order of ‘object texture’, ‘texture’, ‘object texture’, ‘texture’. Then there is an underlying pattern where the images go from, ‘wet texture’, to ‘dry texture’, ‘dry texture’, ‘wet texture’. I think the images work well together like this, and the colours in the images complement each other.

See the final selection in my previous post J