Portfolio Project Portfolio: Deteriorate

                Time Erodes Us All

                For my portfolio project I want to center my images around the idea of deterioration. This idea sort of stemmed from looking at Sally Mann’s work Body Farm. When I first saw the images I thought they were grotesque and hard to look at. However, at the same exact moment I had a hard time tearing my eyes away from the photos. I was just so fascinated at how the bodies deteriorated, just like the old fruit that falls from the tree onto the forest floor. Humans, fruit, plants, in the end we are all going to rot, deteriorate and decompose. Thus I decided to photograph that inevitable element deterioration. I intended to keep this project rather broad for two reasons. One of which was because I wanted to show how deterioration eventually affects everything, food, houses, corpses, ect... The other reason I decided to keep it broad is to allow room to discover along the way. Some future photographs I hope to make are of animal corpses (most likely from road kill). I also want to gather food and take pictures of the gradual process of it decomposing. In addition, I plan to visit old abandoned houses that are rotting away and photograph their deterioration. I hope the images reveal a sense of beauty, or even just a fascination into deterioration. I want to explore something that is often thought of gross. I tend to like pictures that showcase a sense texture and hope that I can capture the falling apart texture of deterioration. As Meg Rodoff says “Time erodes us all.”