Feelings about Laos

VISUAL ARTS 7R DIANA (JAE RAN) KIM

My life in Vientiane

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2Artist Statement

What I want for my audience to feel is that if they could know by my pictures how life is in Vientiane and I am hoping that the audience can understand my life in Vientiane by my topic, which is ‘Feelings’. If the viewers feel the same way as my purpose of this picture, they would not perfectly know how it is to live in Vientiane, but it would give a brief about it. The communications I have used in my pictures are that I have took photos where I go mostly in the weekends. And those places are certain to everybody so they would know what we actually do on the weekends. It would give people a basic information about how we do and what we do in Vientiane on the weekdays.

The compositional Rules I have used mostly on my pictures are:

• Rules of thirds : Important things has to be ON the line.

• Depth : Could express the deepness in the picture.

• Symmetry & Patterns : To have things in patterns will make the viewers feel calm.

• Leading Lines : Lines can lead the viewers eyes to the thing that is really important in this picture.

• Viewpoint : Rather than the eyes level, but from the other view level.

Help:• What is it you would like to audience to know about your

work.• What communication is in these pictures?• How Compositional Rules are used and how is it connected

to these pictures?

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AnxietyCompositional Rules:Rules of thirdsLeading linesDepthDescription:This picture has a girl leaning on the rail/fence. The picture is kind of tilted so it looks like something is wrong. And if you see the girl’s face, it looks like it is worried.The reason why I took this photo because it feels like the girl is thinking and worried. Because my topic is about our feelings I thought that this picture would be right with my project.

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Feel aloneCompositional Rules:Rules of thirdsDepthViewpointDescription:This picture has man sitting beside the river. Perhaps, the man is thinking about something that is really a serious problem. We can see that the river is moving in the picture which makes me feel that the water is kind of like the man’s mind.The reason why I took this photo is because it just fits into my topic in Visual arts. It feels lonely and worried about his future.

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Grandma’s feelingsCompositional Rules:Rules of thirdsLeading linesDescription:This picture has an old grandma walking. She has a scared but calm face. She looked angry. She was very old but I couldn’t see that she is ill.The reason why I took this photo because I can see the feelings happening to her. She looks angry but calm.

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Mum’s feelings

Compositional Rules:Rules of thirdsLeading linesBackgroundDescription:In this picture, there is a dog which is a she. She is looking towards the Mekong river which feels like she is thinking about something. I think she is thinking about her babies or maybe she had lost her home and she is worried. She had a face full of worries and she also looked lonely.The reason why I took this photo is because I could feel the feelings about the dog in the pictures and that would definitely fit with my topics in this project.

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Never give upCompositional Rules:Rules of thirdsLeading linesDescription:In this picture, I want to name it as ‘Never give up’. Because there is one plant that is growing on the road with trash, paint and dirt all over it. The environment is not good for the plant but the plant is still growing. I don’t know why but I felt proud for the flower that it is still growing.The reason why I took this photo is because even though the flower is growing well, it would be worried because it can die by any circumstances such as get stepped by people or get ripped off.

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Three men

Compositional Rules:Rules of thirdsBalancing elementsDescription:There is the statue of the Lao general, Anuvong, a sun, and three men. In Korea, number 3 is the lucky number. And there were 3 men and a general with a sun. It made a nice scene. The reason why I took the picture is because it looks like the three men are praying to the statue on the sunset.If there wasn’t a sun, it would have looked more formal, because I see people praying in front of the statue all the time. But, because there is a sun, it looks more beautiful.