A2:

I was directly responding to the image of "Miss N." by Gertrude Kasebier in these images. I feel as though I tried to portray the artist within ourselves feel that Kasebier captures as well as the mystery that is left when viewing most of Kasebier's work. I played off the sensual pose that is used, holding the vase but removed the faces of my female family members. I wished to play on the fact of being so similar while at the same time so different. By posing all three of us in similar fashion and causing the plane of focus to go to the vase I hoped to make the view see the subtle differences; the skin texture, the body size, the vase size, the slouch, the way we hold a handle, etc. 

Assignment 1 Artist Statement

Jessica Selmser

In our project “The Real Florida” I would like to show Florida's inner forests, specifically I would like to shoot in Ocala, but since I couldn't get to Ocala I wanted to go with less traveled paths and waterways that gave the feeling of the inner Florida lands. I tried to focus these images on a small objects, rather than the whole of the landscape around it. I will be shot at Manatee State Park and Myaka State Park to achieve the “Ocala” feeling. I know that I went tilt/shift crazy but I enjoyed this contrast with these overgrown paths.