Dummy Book Peer Edit Reflection The feedback that I received for my Dummy Book is exactly what I expected to read. While constructing the sequence for my Dummy Book, I realized that I want to go in a different direction with my book, but didn’t have as vast of an array of pictures to get my point across. I want to have a more reflexive quality to my book, instead of a straightforward experience as we might find with other more minimal photobooks. Since receiving the prompt for this project, I have thought about having pictures that are oriented in various ways so that the viewer has to physically turn the book after each spread to appropriate the right perspective. I still want to incorporate a natural aspect to the subject matter of my photos, and I’m finding that trees and shrubbery are the most interesting to me because their come in various shapes and provide really nice lines. That is why I am glad that Paige noticed that my DB was filled with interesting curvatures and lines. I would like to further play with that idea. One idea is to scale my book size down much more and have a photobook of lines and details of nature through macro shots. Mimi had a problem with the various sizes of the pictures that I used within the book and craved more uniformity. I totally understand that. The purpose of the DB was to check out how different sizes of pictures and different sequencing appealed to the reader. I have a much better idea, and would like to move toward a greater uniformity in picture sizes. I definitely want to stick with one picture per page because I think that positioning too many pictures onto a page can look cluttered and sloppy. Mimi also made an interesting suggestion, in which she proposed that if I were to keep the square shaped close up pictures that I could utilize the borders of the page
by continuing the patterns and lines that my images produce onto the borders. I think that this could definitely add an element of reflexivity, as the viewer would be aware of my firsthand additions to the piece due to the drastic juxtaposition of different mediums. Overall, I have found that this project has pushed me back in the direction of second guessing my choices and constantly shifting and changing meaning within my work as I used to constantly do as an art major. The past projects in this class have been clearly conceptualized with a simple goal. Now, I feel as though I am wavering too much with what I want to do, and my uncertainty is definitely coming across in my picture sequencing.