Lauren Stewart
Reporter
“Inner Space,” a gallery coordinated by photography teacher Mr. Peter Kingsbury, was put on display Nov. 16 in the front entrance hallway. The gallery features the work of photography and art classes alike.
Each of the pieces featured below has a story behind them as to how the artists came about their creation:
“The first day in class I actually just looked through all my pictures trying to think of anything to think of what to do but then I just started playing around with all my pictures and started to almost do like a mirror effect when you stand in between two mirrors and you see on and on but with rooms in my house. I think to a fresh set of eyes its probably way more interesting and confusing which is what I wanted people to feel; confused about how it all worked because of all the windows and such,” junior Tory Jardon said.
Junior Katherine Moncure’s photograph of the Waveny mansion’s terrace is also exhibit. “I first took the picture at Waveny one day when a wedding was being set up and I went in the early evening because my goal was to get dramatic lighting. In this case, the inner space is a combination of both inside the patio and the view/light from outside. When I did the piece of the staircase, I didn’t originally plan on doing cubism. Instead, I took a bunch of pictures trying to get an interesting angle and composition. Mrs. McDonough suggested that I combine the pictures into one piece though, so I thought it would be interesting to put them together in so that the patterns of the stairs and the railing would connect. I used photo-shop to re-size, flip, and overlap the pictures in order to create a composition that lets the eye move through the piece,” she said.
Senior Emily King contributed a picture of Philip Johnson’s glass house to the gallery. “After being assigned this shoot, we took a class field trip to Phillip Johnson’s glass house. We got to explore nearly all of his establishments but his glass house being his most distinguished architectural feat, was our main focus. It’s not so hard to take a picture of inner space, but what proves to be the challenge is finding the right angle to convey the depth, lighting, and subject you are interested in. That’s how my gallery picture came to be. I loved the reflections Johnson’s house walls mirrored,” Emily said.
“The gallery is about space, like inner spaces, and so in my particular photo class we had to create a collage of spaces within space. I think its a really cool gallery idea because while it seems almost limited and boring to some, it really makes you think and be creative with how you are going even attempt it to capture something like a space uniquely or how to create a unique space,” Tory said.
Art by Tory Jardon, Emily King, and Katherine Moncure
