Hannah Morris Assignment #1

The theme of the exhibition was " Adapting Spaces", the artists work focused on human and enviroment interactions. All of the four artists Ryan Adrick, Tracy Longely-Cook, Daniel Kariko, and John Mann all had very different styles, but somehow focused on this central theme. I think as a whole the exhibit did not really flow. Tracy Longely-Cook's work was so different than the other artists' and I feel like it was a stretch for some of her images to be related back to the central theme, or it was just not communicated well to the viewer. Of all the artists' work I think I was most drawn to Daniel Kariko's. I think his work was most coherent with the theme of the exhibition. His work focused on dilapidation in the south due to enviromental causes. I liked his compositions they were very simple and I felt like he wasn't trying too hard with composing or relating back to the central theme. Ryan Adrick's focus was on relating a specific artist to another building that he felt they could relate too, and would help to explain the person. I thought some of the pairing were hard to understand why they were put together. But others seemed to go really well together. It seemed like some of them were forced. John Mann's work focused on the Appalation Trail and the people he came across on it. I liked his work because it was simple and the people were shown just the way they were as he saw them. It was just really real, I also liked the images without people in it too. Tracy Longely-Cook's work was about a character who was telling a story. She was placed outside in different places doing different things. I thought there was an element of mystery in her work because I wasn't always sure of what the person was doing, and it being in sepia tone added to that, I thought it was cool though.

I chose an image by Ryan Adrick entitled Ruth Ann and Debbie Lane, Orange Park, FL. I like this pairing of images because they are so down to earth. I think they both go really well together. They are both have a simple and natural looking style to them. The artist is comparing Ruth Ann a tattoo artist to Debbie Lane, the street he grew up on. I feel like these two photographs go really well together because maybe she lives in a small town like the one he grew up in, and is now a tattoo artist in a shop in a strip mall. At first glance it looks like an average person living an average life in an average town. The photo of the house is very average looking too, but just by looking at these photographs you can only make assumptions about what is going on in her life or what is going on in that neighborhood or inside of that house, i like that about his work, you don't really know, you can only assume things using what he chose to put together.