Architectural Blend- Brooke Hockspiel

 

For my project, I wanted to show the differences in how people used to get their knowledge versus how they get their knowledge now. If we have a question, we simply ask google. If we need to define something, we go to the online Webster dictionary. I wanted to contrast this by showing our phones inside a library, which used to be where people would find everything they needed to know.

For my photo, I wanted to incorporate a couple of different ideas into the image. I wanted to create a vintage feeling portrait but make it a little edgier, and a little more modern. I chose to use a snake in this image because snakes often symbolize rebirth, renewal, and growth within art. To match the theme of the snake and renewal I drew a tattoo onto my arm, of a snake wrapping around it. It is supposed to further push the idea that the snake brings while also creating a modern and more edgy feel to the portrait as a whole. 

 

Warren Coleman Manufacturing

Coleman Manufacturing Company was the first textile cotton mill in the United States owned and operated by African Americans in 1897 organized by Warren Clay Coleman.  The Mill was  located 2 miles from the county seat in Concord.  Richard B Fitzgerald, a businessman of Durham, NC was the company first president.  The mill was “allowed” to spin, weaved manufacture, finish and sell warps, yarns, cloth, prints and other fabrics like wool, cotton and other materials. Black workers was hired here and had the chance to learn industrials skills but financial problems began to take place and in 1904 the company was unable to remain open once Coleman died.  The bottom Image is the original image and the top is the one from today.  I tried to portray what is that we see today compared to the old.  Most of the building is tore down and windows covered.   

 

Wet Plate Collodion Project - Andrew Vongphachanh

I wanted to depict a look of desperation and worries. I wanted to try and convey the feeling and look that a family member writing to someone in the civil war. I used this photo of my uncle writing a letter that would later on be read to our family for a reunion. I used a wood like piece from my door and used it as a border, like from the library of congress photo. I added custom scratches and smudges. 

Wet Plate Collodion Project - Kelli Crockett

 

For my project, I wanted to depict an older looking instrument that is slightly out of place. I chose the autoharp because it was popularized in the 1950s, though in the context of a digital wet plate, you would assume it to be older. I combined this with modern jewelry as well, to further curve our understanding of when this image could have been taken just from an initial viewing of it.

From the library of congress, I used the borders off of two images from 1862. I created the rest of my textures using my and Jeff's custom brushes and many different blending modes.

Wet Plate Collodion- Brooke Hockspiel

For my concept, I wanted to take a very urbanized shopping center in Charlotte and create a humorous piece by adding in carriages. I think it contrasts well, as shopping centers definitely did not exist back then and it's unique to see carriages in this kind of a setting. I created this by taking images of carriages from the Library of Congress and adding them to my original photo taken of a shopping center parking lot.

 

Wet Plate Collodion - Dominic DiNardi

 

My concept was to show what a young adult/ teen would be doing on a hot summers evening in modern times, when back than there was wars, battles, violence, etc. Young adults/ teens would be fighting in wars, working, or doing something not as fun as what we could do today. I also added images from baseball games and hot dog stands on the street to symbolize the grilling and food aspect behind this image. You cant really see the baseball image but it is mixed in there.