Alternative Process - Photogram 

When I decided to do a photogram I was assuming it would be rather simple. I was very wrong I spent two days in the dark room playing with various objects I had found in both art  rooms such as tissue paper, my mascara that I found in my bag, some advil and soy beans that Sarah was so kind to let me have. I soon realized that a photogram was easy to do but so difficult to do well. 


I had been trying many ideas, such as bug, butterfly, and a pill addiction. For some reason all I wanted to do was an explosion I thought it would look really freaking cool, the largest explosion I would think of would be the terrorist attacks on the twin towers on september 11th 2001, 9/11. I quickly found a long forgotten piece of chalk and a plastic knife and started chopping away at it trying to make what I kept telling people was my "cocaine' - aka the explosion part of the photograph. As the buildings I used two pieces of film that was over exposed that I simply found lying around. I wanted to show the explosion and the impact. I love this photograph and it turned out much better then I have ever thought it would, I am very happy with it.