From exploring the difference between bedrooms of three generations I wanted to stick to my own bedroom as a representation on behalf of 'My Generation'. I had the idea that different bedrooms experience different emotion even though its a safe place and we feel free, it does not mean the four walls of our bedroom experience only the happy emotions. My bedroom is something that is a part of me as from a young age I've kept adding to the walls to make it feel like it is mine and personal to me. We may believe we feel safe in or bedrooms and almost free insofar as our brain/thoughts/actions can travel anywhere without anyone to judge, like they do on Twitter. We are able to sit in our rooms and read a book and be taken to a whole different journey to the one we are travelling right now. For this development I aimed to show the idea of our fragmented lives in a still life bedroom not prompting these feelings; how the walls are stood still and I have these words to motivate me, yet we still feel all over the place. In four confined walls our brain has the chance to explode and we feel all sorts. These images were all taken in natural lighting, coming in from the window from the front. I situated this as the background because it described my bedroom more; revision posters, pictures and quotes whereas my bed wall was nothing but wall paper. Again I adapted Rania Matar's concept behind her work about teenagers in bedrooms but showing how we become distorted within our sanctuary sometimes and its uncontrollable. The images were taken through a self-timer on a tripod and I stood still through a long exposure flashing a light after specific seconds to create the effect of the anonymous face and it being all over the place.
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