Current Learning Agreement

• I intend to study photography


1. This was something I was initially unsure of because I don’t see myself as a good street or documentary photographer.


2. However, I’m interested by lighting and I feel my photographic strengths lie in creating and lighting a scene using my knowledge of lighting and experiments in alternate forms of lighting.


• I intend to photograph a series of pictures on the subject of nightmares and uncomfortable sleep.
  
1. The pictures will be surreal.


2. The photographs will be constructed scenes with props and actors


3. Inspiration has come from common nightmares like chase/attack, falling, stuck in slow motion, embarrassed (naked dreams).


4. I have researched into the psychology behind dreams.


5. I have also collected a number of dreams people have written down. Artists, Writers and my own peers.


6. See the myth of the Incubus.


7. I intent to include incubi in my work as a metaphor for whatever it is that causes the dream. For example, financial worry.


• My recent work has been experimental.


• I have been using alternative forms of light, candles torches and glow sticks etc.


• I’ve also been building my own light courses
  
1. I have a technical interest in doing this.


• I intend to use these techniques for the dream series.


• The technical exercises have produced nice aesthetics without meaning. The subject of dreams will give me reason to be using the techniques.