Poetry Interpretation...

Interpreting a poem into a something else is a lot harder than it seems. I wrote a poem about friendship that I was required to transform into something different like a movie, photo series, digital image, painting or something similar to that. This seems like a simple enough task but it is a lot harder than it seems to transform words into a visual. Maybe it was the poem I picked but it was actually really hard to do. I did a photo series and all week I walked around my neighborhood to take pictures that reminded me of friendship. The photo series ended up being more about friendship in general but my poem was about a specific friendship between my friend and I. 

I started out by taking pictures throughout my neighborhood of things that I think represented friendship. I had a plan to start out by taking pictures that were exactly like the poem. As I started taking the pictures I realized this was going to be hard and it wouldn't be very aesthetically pleasing. So I decided to take pictures that illustrate friendship in general with a little emphasis on my friend and I. Something I found interesting was the interesting things around my neighborhood that were in pairs. For example, something that I thought illustrated friendship was a specific tree i found on my street. It was a tree that came out of the same roots but there were two tree trunks. I also photographed a lot of flowers in pairs because I thought these really captured friendship. They are beautiful, they grow from the same roots, and they are always together. 

Even though I was able to find these portrayals of friendship it was really hard to get just the right ones. I couldn't just do flowers, I had to find something else. So I also went through past pictures that I have taken. One that I found that I really liked was a picture of two shadows. It was of me and my friend. 

So as a reflection on this project, I would like to say that it was harder than I expected it would be. I tried to use all the resources that I could and in the end I was able to get it done. I was pretty happy with my final product but it didn't turn out how I had first expected.