Pens
Megan Gaudry and Stephanie Colacino
The theme our group chose was pens with the sub theme being contrast.
Our group decided to use pens to represent the everyday aesthetic and themes of transience as they are used up to quickly and are a typically small and mundane object. The pens transitory nature are displayed in the first half of the video through their lonesome position, only one or two are shown at a time paired with the antique lighting. They are then contrasted with many colourful pens to show how nothing is ever mundane and ordinary. The sheer number of pens and the innovative way in which they are sold makes up for their ephemeral nature and reflects ideas of consumerism. The use of perspective in our photos were important in highlighting the structural elements of these usually banal objects.
The very process of photographing such attainable objects creates a decentralization of domestic and professional photography causing the hierarchy of amateur to professional to not really exist. There is also a communal underlying aesthetic as a pen is something many people usually “share” much like photos. The song we used was especially important in conveying our idea of contrast as it begins slow and “eerie” emphasising the transient lonesome pens in the first half. It then builds up to a fast finish which parallels the bursts of colour in the second half. The music changes when the photos do, with the photos changing to the beat of the music creating further coherence for the sub theme of contrast.
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