How was your weekend? - 2011
Composition: A slanted angle of myself in first plane overlaid a shot of my desktop in the same position with lines of a hinted rush created by placing the camera on the tripod and rotating it.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: I wanted to convey the idea of how my weekend usually is. It's me waking up and going straight to the computer to do homework or assignments. I have tons of activities to do and so little time to go out and have fun as the average standard due. (Besides weather didn't let me do so). I also usually eat in front of the computer and have most of my social life through it to catch up with friends and family from back home.
Composition: A full close up shot of my face in five different emotional gestures each one being circled in victorian-esque golden circles with a red background.
Concept/Aboutness/Idea: In Mexico is pretty common to have "Caritas" (little faces). Families often go to photographers, who sometimes are located in "Mercaditos" or "Tianguis" (Little Markets) where they go and get their groceries and they get their babies to pose on five different gestures.
This is actually an European old fashion tradition brought up from the Victorian era to Mexico during the conquest of the country. Some scholars point out that it was High Society who often had photographers do this, but as technology became available everybody started doing so.
My family as good Mexicans had this pictures of myself and my sister. Sadly I couldn't get the original one to compare them, but I wanted to recreate that memory of childhood through recreating it digitally and also to bring some sort of that old casual happy feeling that is pretty common on Mexicans.
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