What to do?

"I'm like an honourary spectator in my own life.

Photographs bring people closer to life and reveal things we would never normally see. They force us to pay more attention to the subtleties and awesomeness of the world around us; to appreciate it a little more for its beauty. They can show us suffering, passion, harmony, or something as simple as a pebble on a beach."

It's coming to the end of my time at art school and I am so desperate to leave.

It's not that I don't love it here, it's just that I'm ready for a change. Some new water to float ideas around in.

Alas, before that happens there's a lot of work to be done, one particularly looming thing being the degree show. Thursday is the day that department year have to go get photos taken for the catalogue and I've been toying over what to put in. I mean, how can you choose one piece from a group of pieces that work as a whole (and perhaps I've over thought this a little) that is going to sum up the whole intention of your work, while simultaneously becoming an image that when people look back at the catalogue after the show they say 'hey, that was part of the work by that girl...[hopefully insert something positive]... who studied PEM'

My work has been a lot to do with perception and reality over the last few years. (hence the above quote from a couple of years ago) The connectivity of life on the whole. In particularly I've been exploring the role that photography (and art) plays in that. Photography can never be more than a representation of reality; a tool to record a moment that passes quicker than we have to acknowledge it's existence. For me it is often a means of looking and collecting in order to later reflect and dissect or ponder over that moment or thing that was, in a different context.

So I came to a conclusion that I'm not going to put a whole piece into the catalogue. Apart from anything else, some of the work as a whole wouldn't really translate to a 2D space in a book. I'm going to put in a part of an image that for me, connects back to the above quote, and to a certain extent, relates to my relationship to my work. The voyeur and the subject (although obviously I'm a little more hands on than a voyeur.)