The Proposal
I was planning on attacking the photography project once the focus on production (In my mind, the more intensive part of the module) for script and screen had ended and post-production had begun. So there is not much here. But I have been playing my project over in my head, what it would be about and who it would target and what questions it would make you ask. Simply put, My project is the Entropy of Religion. Both the idea of it breaking into disorder and the idea of it slowing, dying and growing cold and irrelevant. I shall enter controversial territory by trying to include themes of natural and human disasters relating to the religions I photograph, the idea being Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. The mass shootings that Christianity might have inspired, the rape culture in India that may have been influenced by Hinduism, the traditionalization of the mutilation of newborn babies in Judaism and the Isreal/Palestine conflict for Islam.
I may try to bastardize and deliberately “blaspheme” against the work of Lauren Pond in my photographs by appropriating similar styles and subjects but with vastly different messages ( http://www.laurenpondphoto.com/places/no-need-for-other-worlds/ ). Another photographer I may reference in my work could be Viviane Moos and her documentative photography of religion ( http://www.vivianemoos.com/gallery.html?gallery=RELIGION#/10 ).
I may become hated by some people for my work, but in my opinion, the purpose of art is to provoke emotions via the questions said art causes us to ask. So if I am hated for my work, then I have succeeded, no?