User:Paula Winkler/Paula's Project Proposal II

What do you want to make?

I am currently working on a collection of images I make of clouds, outside my studio window in Berlin. The working title is procrastination - clouds from my desk. The images show nothing more than different variations of sky with clouds at different times of the day. The images are dominated by their reduced but strong color palette that includes grey, different kinds of blue and orange/red. In some images you can see that a sky with clouds is depicted while other images touch the edge of abstraction. Some images include a swarm of birds or a far away trace of a plane. None of the images show buildings or an urban skyline that would place them in a certain environment.

I'm aiming at a substantial amount of images - let's say 365 - one of each day of the year to evoke a feeling of endlessness. The appropriate form of display will have to be determined when the collection is big enough to do an edit. I can image presenting the images in a self-published photobook with an accompanying lightbox or print on the wall but it could also turn out the best way to present them would be on the wall.

Why do you want to make it?

My goal is to create a contemplative state of mind that unfolds between the images that touch an edge to abstraction and the direction of thought I'm giving the spectator by referring to the concept of procrastination in the title of the work. I take my own experience as a starting point for this work, translating it to images and offer these images to others inviting them let their mind drift away. Looking at clouds has a deeply contemplative if not spiritual effect on me. Especially sitting at my desk it instantly evokes thoughts about time, scale, disintegration, transformation, significance xyz and also about photography and the intense wish to stop time to be able to look at this specific arrangement of vanishing colors and textures for as long as I wish to do so.

Time table & How do you plan to make it

I will shot new images almost every day and print them out as sketches immediately to build up a broad collection. In November I want to try out a new medium format camera and compare the results - maybe I will switch to this type of camera.

And I need to try out different types of color treatments as well as different kinds of paper and sizes.

Relation to larger context

Ed Rusha - 26 Gasoline Stations

Joel Meyerowitz - New Color Photography