Welcome back Milwaukee.....

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Milwaukee has finally had a snow day mid December......it's about time! Snow makes me insanely happy

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                   kittens were not feeling christmas pictures this year.

                                         o well.... this will have to do

Another project I am working on

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After 6 rolls of film and 204 images later I am still scanning my thumbnails trying to see what I've got. This is what I have come up with so far. After an amazing trip to DC and now photographing for the Charles Allis Art Museum I am trying to figure out what my next step is.   Thinking Americorp....Peacecorp.......

Polaroids.....just cause

103 polaroids later.....yea i know the orange background is awful but that's what color my yoga mat is and i set them out and realized i was too lazy to move them so BAM....there it is. After shooting these for the past two months I decided to lay them out to see what I have. Some are just personal images of family and friends but there are a bunch I feel like I could work with. Ran out of film so I think I have decided to continue this side project and see what happens over a long period of time. mwauuuhhhhhh.

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Writing more sounds like a good idea too...my creative self is going crazy working on multiple projects at once...but I would not know another way to create my work. Tons of shoots and film to develop so many more posts shortly!

i have been freaking out since my digital camera broke....i have been using my 35mm and my polaroid....but i do not have the funds to develop all my film....ahhh need my digital to get back to work on my series....

Just recently came back from Washington DC where Untitled Cereal had their first exhibition which had one of my new pieces featured. The Silhouette of a Damsel No.3

 

The Silhouette of a Damsel No.3 © Emily Porter

It was quite exciting and I was able to meet the amazing curator, Amy Lust, as well. I can not wait to develop my film, purchase my camera, and possibly have an artists collective in the works.....!

So much going on.......

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I am going to Washington DC in a few weeks for an exhibition hosted by Untitled Cereal that will be showing one of my images from the in process series, The Silhouette of a Damsel.  I am very excited...and while I am doing this I get to meet up with my friend who goes to grad school out there.  And I get to experience FotoDC Festival!



 I also found this site called Artists Wanted that allows you to have a portfolio to view and view other creatives and enter contests and what not.
http://emilyporterphoto.see.me/

Three series I am currently working on

 

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This series is based around sexuality and mundane moments in a relationship. It is in it's beginnings....

The Silhouette of a Damsel © Emily Porter

This series is about exploring the human body as a figure and ...:

i have been noticing lately how awkward we as creatures really are. we are hairless animals that trench around on two legs thinking that we dominate the world and the "lesser" animals around us. We are so similar in our physic that we are astonishingly beautiful in our grotesque forms. In The Silhouette of a Damsel series I want to show how similar we are yet how beautifully awkward our forms can be and as a species we are unique yet so different in our silhouetted form.

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.........and then im working on a polaroid series with 2x3 polaroid film and documenting my every day life......this occurred after my digital camera broke and i just wanted to shoot all the time....we shall see what happens......im taking one hundred images and seeing what pops up

                         The Silhouette of a Dominus No. 1 © Emily Porter

This is my random thought statement....incredibly raw:

i have been noticing lately how awkward we as creatures really are. we are hairless animals that trench around on two legs thinking that we dominate the world and the "lesser" animals around us. We are so similar in our physic that we are astonishingly beautiful in our grotesque forms. In The Silhouette of a Damsel series I want to show how similar we are yet how beautifully awkward our forms can be and as a species we are unique yet so different in our silhouetted form.

                                    The Silhouette of a Damsel No. 1,2,3  © Emily Porter

Silhouette of a Damsel No. 2 © Emily Porter

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