I would like to take a moment to say that for just a few pictures, i ended up dropping two - yes, two - of my digital cameras into the pool. They are unofficially dead right now. So I did my best to work with the images I was able to get. This idea kind of originated from my affinity to water and the old classical still life and portraiture paintings. Most of the themes here deal with manipulation, artificiality, and complacency. The entire environment is supposed to be this sort of obsessive compulsive image that reiterates how much we try to keep nature at arm's reach, within a certain level of tolerance and control. Fenced-in areas, manicured plants, chlorinated water, artificial fruits, flowers, and a bird, an umbrella, and a young girl dressed up to swim. Hopefully this makes some sort of cohesive composition, but I'm not really loving this at the moment. I feel like it needs a lot of work. I need advice as far as the dimensions, the color, the arrangement, so on and so forth. I wanted to also play with the reflection in the water, but I wasn't sure how. There is another image of me holding a dead bouquet of flowers that I have not yet incorporated into the image, and I'm not sure if I want to.
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