Trust, Peace, and Patience: My Final - Coleman Criss
Open ended projects are always hard for me because narrowing down my ideas to a cohesive, singular idea has been a challenge for me for as long as I can remember. After thinking hard on what I wanted to do, I realized I hadn't really done a project that has to do with my faith. But, even from that perspective, narrowing my project down further had its challenges.
I started off with text. Over this last year, as crazy as it might sound to some of you, I've had three words continuously popping up in my life. Those words are trust, peace, and patience. So from my words, I wanted to use images that related to my faith and those words.
I started off with some familiar ones and some of my photographs and started to build up a series of images. While I was putting them together, I tried changing the text from those three words to a phrase: "What does it mean to live?"
I didn't like any of these and as you can see, I didn't make it very far into it. I tried scrapping the images and thought about using hands with my text as a way to communicate my idea.
I still wasn't happy with these posters either. I talked with my mentor/friend in St. Louis and while she liked the ideas and renditions I had, she was questioning if it was still connected to my original idea at all. She asked my what originally inspired me, and it brought back to those three words: trust, patience, and peace. I realized I needed to step into a more personal interaction with my images, so I grabbed some photographs that I have from my camera that meant something to me on a deeper level.
This is a photo of me taken by my friend Kayla. I wanted to use it for my "Trust" image.
This is a clock I photographed at the Biltmore House in Asheville. It was the image I used for "Patience".
This is a photograph I had taken at Jump Off Rock in Hendersonville. I used it for "Peace".
These are my final images. I kept them simple, but I was intentional with my simplicity. "Trust" relates to my battle with trust issues. The pose represents me letting go and trusting God. The gradient I used to hide my identity represents me stepping outside myself and my own understanding and relying on God. "Patience" represents the time and practice of trusting God. I have bad anxiety, so I tend to check the clock on things over and over again and stress myself out, so I put the photo into negative to represent the idea of not watching the clock and just being patient. "Peace" represents the aftermath, or side-effect if you will, that follows trust and patience over time. I chose the photo from Jump Off because it's a place I go with one of my best friends and we just sit above the clouds and watch the sun set. It's a place I can go and the worries of the world just melt away. I added text to all of these images just as an extra graphic element, but I left "Peace" a bit more implied than the rest. I felt that having a big word in a bold font centered in my image took away from the idea of peace. I wanted that image specifically to invoke the feeling that is peace. All in all, I struggled a lot with this project, but nonetheless, I enjoyed the journey.
I started off with text. Over this last year, as crazy as it might sound to some of you, I've had three words continuously popping up in my life. Those words are trust, peace, and patience. So from my words, I wanted to use images that related to my faith and those words.
I started off with some familiar ones and some of my photographs and started to build up a series of images. While I was putting them together, I tried changing the text from those three words to a phrase: "What does it mean to live?"
I didn't like any of these and as you can see, I didn't make it very far into it. I tried scrapping the images and thought about using hands with my text as a way to communicate my idea.
I still wasn't happy with these posters either. I talked with my mentor/friend in St. Louis and while she liked the ideas and renditions I had, she was questioning if it was still connected to my original idea at all. She asked my what originally inspired me, and it brought back to those three words: trust, patience, and peace. I realized I needed to step into a more personal interaction with my images, so I grabbed some photographs that I have from my camera that meant something to me on a deeper level.
This is a photo of me taken by my friend Kayla. I wanted to use it for my "Trust" image.
This is a clock I photographed at the Biltmore House in Asheville. It was the image I used for "Patience".
This is a photograph I had taken at Jump Off Rock in Hendersonville. I used it for "Peace".
These are my final images. I kept them simple, but I was intentional with my simplicity. "Trust" relates to my battle with trust issues. The pose represents me letting go and trusting God. The gradient I used to hide my identity represents me stepping outside myself and my own understanding and relying on God. "Patience" represents the time and practice of trusting God. I have bad anxiety, so I tend to check the clock on things over and over again and stress myself out, so I put the photo into negative to represent the idea of not watching the clock and just being patient. "Peace" represents the aftermath, or side-effect if you will, that follows trust and patience over time. I chose the photo from Jump Off because it's a place I go with one of my best friends and we just sit above the clouds and watch the sun set. It's a place I can go and the worries of the world just melt away. I added text to all of these images just as an extra graphic element, but I left "Peace" a bit more implied than the rest. I felt that having a big word in a bold font centered in my image took away from the idea of peace. I wanted that image specifically to invoke the feeling that is peace. All in all, I struggled a lot with this project, but nonetheless, I enjoyed the journey.
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