Whoops, I am back again! thankyou for the thumbs up in the voting, i do enjoy this challenge.
I went on a random dive into the internet to find an artist to feature and found Mona Hatoum. Born 1952, in Lebanon, her family were Palestinian refugees. She is now based in London. Her work is multimedia installations, sculpture, photography , video and works on paper. The themes of her work are around dislocation and the relationship between politics and the individual. She transforms familiar, everyday objects into foreign, threatening, even dangerous things, making surreal and thought provoking artworks.
Even if you don't want to dig into the conceptual nature of her art, the ways she combines and displays the materials and objects she uses will hopefully give enough ideas for your photography over the next couple of weeks .
If you reference a particular work i would be pleased to see a link to it in your description , but you can enter any photo that you thought to take after viewing some of her work , allow your mind to bounce around some ideas!
Kali - I really enjoyed your choice of artist this time around and my Camera Club and I had a very in depth discussion on the differences between my shot and the one I attempted to replicate. It was an awesome discussion and I learned so much about taking note of hidden details.
I would do my shot differently next time now that I see the way Mona approached her shot to capture the tension found in her eye.
But - this artist challenge is a great exercise in observation when digging into the artist's mind!
@farmreporter I am so glad to hear that Wendy, I thought it was a flop of a challenge as not many people expressed an interest, just about to put up the voting today .
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I would do my shot differently next time now that I see the way Mona approached her shot to capture the tension found in her eye.
But - this artist challenge is a great exercise in observation when digging into the artist's mind!