For this raster project I decided to capture a time in the 1940's using a broken down place with black and white photography. I used a poem by E.E. Cummings that was also written in the 40's and I think it does a great job of portraying how the subjects are using space and time. I used the first stanza in the poem,
"in spite of everything
which breathes and moves,since Doom
(with white longest hands
neatening each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds".
I set the time period to the 1940's because there was a lot of war and chaos going on at this time but despite of all these inevitable things that have happened since the beginning of history, they subjects "neaten creases" by finding happiness in the chaos. Creases can never fully be neatened out, therefore they become content with anything that is flawed, (possibly war going on or just an argument)  and imperfections become perfect in their minds. The war is to be seen as a symbol of anything that could be going wrong in a relationship, and when things are going well, pictures usually capture what seems like a dream or what may look like engagement pictures. The time that I captured was not only supposed to be the 1940's but also relationships in general, how we spend our time and why pictures of couples look the way they do. The space I captured was full of memories and I wanted to play with all of the different spaces couples can move into at one time.


I did this by taking several different pictures from the same spot. I had to set the timer and figure out what appropriate poses to do. The Iphone ended up taking the best pictures and after I transferred them to my computer I changed them to black and white and fixed any unevenness in the photo and size. I chose one landscape to go with and basically selected only our bodies and pasted them on top. I did this several times with each scene. Sometimes I needed to adjust the size or how the picture fit, sometimes I needed to erase or go in with a paint brush and fix things like where the shoe placement was. We went out and bought clothes that we thought best represented the 1940's and found a location that seemed to capture a different time that was full of memories and didn't look modern. I used black and white because the photos were taken at different times of the day and doing this made it easiest to piece all of these photos together. Also, colors can be distracting and I wanted most of the complex parts to come from the different layers.