In the Nightair... Alexander Keech: March 2011

30 March 2011

Are You Damned To Hell?

I am currently working on a poster campaign for my friend. I wanted to give you a lil sneak peak of how things are going. My muse was quite a religious one, but quite dark and sinister at the same time.

Are You Damned To Hell? (2011)

24 March 2011

My Heart Bleeds For My Community, My Neighborhood, And The Bigots.

I recently had a project for photography class which we had to take 10 photos which had to be about neighborhood. I set about it at first by researching the street I live on, and what used to be there in history. I found out from the local library, that it used to be an old pig farm in 1782. I used this information and decided I was going to use a pig's heart in my photo's of my neighborhood. I started to think about how I could tie in the heart to the project, and soon had the idea, to make the heart, the heart of my community/neighborhood, and to convey what I think about my area with the heart. I personally feel my street and community is dead at the moment. Nobody talks, there is some bitter rivalries and its practically silent, as nobody even respects that each other exist. So I was going to have the communities heart bleeding. As I was setting up my heart, I was approached by some guys in the street, who started about throwing horrible words at me, such as "faggot" and "little shit". This in itself really confirmed to me what I felt about my community, and neighborhood. And then I realized, it made my heart bleed... In trying to convey the heart of the community all bloody and dying I actually ended up conveying my own heart, lying dead on the floor in my street. This project took me down some strange routes and journeys within my mind, but in the end I came to a sad but interesting conclusion. Instead of letting it depress me, I actually feel a bit happier and more determined than ever, to try and re-kindle my community, and to make it a nicer place. Sometimes from our shadows, comes a little bright light...