The last image - why bother?

On January, I submitted one piece for a competition, it is called “Portrait of my Wife”, at that moment I struggled with the images as I felt that they were no good, this was partially due to that in the past, I took pictures of flat paintings and now I have to learn how to properly take photos of a 3D object.

Days later, I was informed that my submission was not successful, so after shaking off the bad mood, I went back to take a look at the materials I sent, especially the images.

I guess that, because I haven’t seen them in a while, I was able to spot important flaws in the images I submitted. To make it simple, I would say that if somebody does not know my work, he/she will have a lot of trouble reading what my work is about from those images. This was a breakthrough.

Since that moment, I understood that I needed to pay lots of attention to the way I was trying to present my work, especially if they do not know me or my work, and if neither my work nor I are present for the introductions.

This is why last week I spent quite a good amount of time in my uni studio, trying to take good pictures of my latest piece, pictures that might work together to give others enough information to make a decision.

I have to say that it was quite a challenge as I was trying to present both a painting/sculpture and a video.

Why is this interesting to me?

I have to say that this exercise has raised many questions in my mind regarding the way I document my work, the amount of time I dedicate to this activity and most importantly, am I successful in it?

I must say that I feel challenged, not only by the fact that now I have to document 3D pieces, but also that they might exist both physically and digitally.